Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regret that so few students were able to attend the talk on English reading, which the instructor in junior themes recently gave. There is undoubtedly a need of a few lectures on the subject of English reading, similar or supplementary to those given by Prof. Hill; and we feel sure the small attendance at this lecture must have been caused by ignorance or negligence on the part of the students. The lecturer intended to give a few informal talks or lectures on the importance of forming a taste for English reading, and the best method to be pursued in acquiring...
...seemed hardly necessary to do so. I am sorry that I have to ask you to play the first game in Cambridge, but it seems to be the unanimous wish of our class and college that the first game take place there. This is determined, and I feel confident that when you consider that the classes of '84, '85 and '86 all went to New Haven for the first game, you will agree to the request of '87 without dispute. In the first letter I received from you, you referred to the fact that your foot-ball team came...
...hope that our freshmen will feel that it is their duty not only to break the record in regard to playing the first game at New Have, but to prevent their ambitious rivals from perching on the far-famed fence for once in many years...
Although we shall probably feel the loss of a trainer more this year than in any previous year, the association is taking the right steps to obviate the difficulty, by promising to have its stewards on the track at certain hours of the day to instruct any one who may need their assistance. As one more victory will put the cup forever in our hands, we hope the efforts of the association and the hopes of the college will meet the success which they deserve...
...commencement exercises are concerned, we do not feel so strongly. It does not matter very much in what language the president tells us to come forward for our degrees, so long as we get those valuable pieces of parchment. We would suggest, however, that it would add much to the impressiveness of the occasion to have the pronunciation used a little more in accordance with that taught in the university, for the sake of consistency at least...