Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent editorial in the Boston Journal on "Elocution in Colleges," calls attention to the oft-repeated fact that many college graduates of acknowledged intellectual ability are unable to express themselves with ease and fluency when suddenly invited to make a few remarks, and "feel obliged to make many excuses upon their surprise at being called upon and lack of preparation." The criticism is just; and the fault is less excusable when we consider that the ability to speak extemporaneously is not hard to acquire. Practice is the magic that enables most men to arrange and express their thoughts when...
...interest, while the painful ignorance exhibited by otherwise intelligent men, whenever sudden disaster comes, shows how great is the need of such information. We think that these lectures, taken in connection with those on "Health and Strength," cannot fail to be of great benefit to the college, and we feel sure that they will be greatly appreciated...
...first year of the annual meetings. Now, why has she so ignominiously failed to hold her own since that day? Simply through a lamentable lack of enthusiasm. When we think that other colleges of our size are training a dozen or twenty men, we ought to feel rather "tired." In fact, the reputation we have so calmly earned of caring little or nothing for field athletics, is, to say the least, disgraceful. The plan, as we understand it, is follows: - all those desirous of competing will please hand their names to the directors as soon as possible, together with...
...editors of the Lampoon, by their rather startling methods of replying to our criticism of April 22, show that they have chosen to find a feeling of ill-will and even bitterness in an editorial which we wrote in perfect good will and friendliness. But our criticism, we still maintain, was well-founded. We have frequently heard the same criticism made in the college at large, and at the time of our writing knew well that we were by no means alone in our position. And simply because we wrote with both sincerity and good will, we have...
...strict training." We do not doubt that our freshman nine will relish the interesting information about themselves which the News here gives, but we trust they will not put too much confidence in it. The experience of former freshman nines offers a dismal warning to '89, and we feel sure that nothing but the hardest work will enable the freshmen to defeat Yale...