Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were due to that. The most noticeable fault of the nine's work was a carelessness in fielding due, no doubt, to the lack of practice. The quick and accurate fielding which we must have before we can hope to defeat Yale can come only by constant practice. We feel sure that Captain Henshaw's energy and skill will do all that can be done towards bringing the championship back to Harvard this year...
Saturday night the Amherst boys sang to a large and enthusiastic audience, and they feel confident that Yale cannot equal their success when they give their concert Wednesday evening...
...janitor, fees, and extra travel, should be struck out, subscriptions and societies together reduced by $10, and theatres, dinners and parties by $5-for these are luxuries in which a man with a small purse would not expect to indulge. It is doubtful whether a man living economically would feel able to spend $20 for travelling, but since the author makes a special point of this item, it may be allowed to stand. The changes suggested would bring the total of this grade to about $700. In a similar way the estimate for a man of moderate means, under...
...higher grades. We admit that some men would be reluctant to acknowledge extravagant sums paid for mere luxuries; but we think that few men, after having resolved to answer such questions as Professor Palmer made, would deliberately send in an untruthful statement of expenses. However, we do not feel satisfied with the evidence thus presented; there is room for the further investigation of this subject. After all it is a controversy between what is and what can be spent, on the one side, and, on the other, what must be and what ought to be spent. It is only...
...elective system and by the transfer of the government of the yard to the students. To refuse this request of the Alumni, the Faculty would act in direct contravention to their established policy of allowing the undergraduates to govern themselves. If the request is granted, the men will feel bound in honor to do nothing which would tend to dishonor our University. Games with professionals would teach the nine to accept defeat with resignation. They would learn to control their feelings; and thus a better condition of affairs would exist when we meet with defeat upon the college ball field...