Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reason for this great rowing spirit at Oxford and Cambridge may be found in the encouragement given the undergraduates. Every man is taken into the confidence of his university boating doings. He is made to feel that he is part and parcel-as in very fact he is-of the general machinery that builds up the 'varsity, and he is given a daily opportunity of watching the crew which is to uphold the aquatic honor of his alma mater...
There are many students, I feel sure, who would feel glad to hear him speak, and I do not doubt that, if arrangements could be made for him to speak in Sanders some evening, there would be a full house to greet him. Harvard should and, no doubt, would consider it an honor to be addressed...
...Harvard athletics for many a year than the creation of this year's nine out of the material afforded. There has been an honest effort to make the best out of unfavorable circumstances and to represent the University in creditable fashion at least. This has been done, and we feel that there is occasion rather to thank Captain Wiggin and his men for what they have succeeded in doing than to disparage them because they did not meet with fuller success. A loyalty which is sincere will be appreciative of good work no less in defeat than in victory...
...field two weeks later than Yale? Then again our class nines have no fields on which to finish their series. Norton's Field is in wretched condition and as the lease expires in a few weeks it is hardly to be supposed that the graduate manager will feel authorized to spend much money on it. The freshman nine will also be without a place to practice. Then there are the scrub nines which provide exercise and recreation for a large number of men. All these organizations are directly injured unnecessarily...
...national poet, and as contrasts are more striking than parallels-if, indeed, when we treat of so wayward a thing as human nature it be possible to find two lines of life that run parallel-I turned from him to Petrarch and the sentimentalists. The comparison enables us to feel more keenly the difference between real heartwood and veneer, between a poem made out of a true life, and a false life attempted to be made into a poem. I shall turn back today to a poem as sincere as that of Dante-in some senses as national...