Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...does not seem very bad to keep away from the rowing machines till after the semi-annual examinations, and when an old hand takes the oars then he does not feel himself very far behind the others. But the next June he loses the race and then "can't see why Yale should have got ahead...
...justifiable, and that the cups should be awarded, as in former years. We cannot imagine why there should have been this delay. Can it be that the boat club does not intend to give any prizes? It is, to be sure, a matter of some importance, and we feel that the boat club ought to allow the winners trophies of the anniversary celebration. As our correspondent points out, this year of all years was hardly one in which to stop the custom of awarding prizes in the scratch races. Moreover, if the contestants entered the races under the assurance that...
...have become the means of publishing an exchange of ideas by two such men as Col. T. W. Higginson and Mr. Hamerton. Mr. Hamerton's reply to Col. Higginson's rather pointed criticism of a statement of his, is interesting and well written. However, the reader is made to feel through this reply now insignificant the whole question at issue is. It seems, to use Col. Higginson's own words, that "a mere obiter dictum is taken up" and made too much of. On the whole the fair-minded reader must acknowledge that Mr. Hamerton has not gotten the upper...
...tone of the college press is improving every year, and we notice a more manly spirit. It was toward this feeling of friendly and open intercourse that Mr. Cowles' speech tended the other evening, and those who heard it were more than glad to return the advance in double measure, And so we feel sure that any ill feeling between Harvard and Yale in the past is due in a great measure to the careful nourishing of the seeds of jealousy by outside influences, particularly by that of the daily public press. Careless reporting and "special" work done...
Under the circumstances, and especially in view of the importance of securing Dr. Waldstein as the permanent director of the School, the trustees appeal confidently to all who value sound scholarship, and to all who feel pride in the national reputation which Americans have gained as promoters of learning, to give their aid, according to their means, in establishing the American School at Athens on a substantial and lasting foundation...