Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...graduate of the college, I feel grateful for the incentive given to me for meeting men in the discussion of questions that should interest every man in a republic like ours. I look with earnest hope to the enlargement and progression of the work in public speaking which is doing so much for our College...
...Casper Whitney reiterates his charges against Western athletics in the current number of Harper's Weekly, giving most of his attention to Minnesota. He seems to think Michigan too far gone for reform. It is a relief to find Whitneys definition of an amateur accurately stated, and to feel that one can honestly differ with him and still consistently advocate purity in athletics. He says an amateur is one who plays purely for love of the sport; a professional, one who plays in part for gain. This, as has so often been said, confines amateurism to the wealthy, and makes...
...this, but it must not be thought that interest and even enthusiasm are incompatible with conservatism. The very names of the graduates who are interested in the project and have it in charge are assurance positive that no rash steps will be taken. Let us, who are younger, not feel bound to lay too much stress on the side of the matter with which we are less concerned, but furnish as much of enthusiasm as we know the graduates will of wisdom. If we do, it is safe to say that the failure of any plan in which both...
...fact the public is beginning to feel very strongly the value of this branch of college work and to watch with great interest the intercollegiate contests. Yale realizes this, and her new Eating Club debates, and the recent defeat of Princeton warn Harvard to look to her laurels...
...short time, your son won for himself a respect and admiration from his classmates which could only be shown so early to one whose every deed and action presented a character so conscientious and lovable that we, who knew him best, can well appreciate the grief you feel over such a loss...