Word: feels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...probably not stretching the truth to say that Harvard never had an athletic team, each one of whose members was so earnest and conscientious in his work as this year's eleven. Every man, it is said, seemed to take almost as much interest, and feel as much responsibility as if he were the leader. We hope to see the same spirit dominate the other teams. The crew is already at work; in a month more the candidates for the baseball and athletic teams will be called out. But the responsibility of the men who expect to try for those...
...feel this matter to be one of real importance. It is by no means an unusual thing for an athlete to get into such a state from lack of exercise, over-diligent application to his studies or what not, that he finds the first week of work wears on him to such an extent that he becomes really sick. The chances are then about even that he will conclude training does not "agree" with him and give it up altogether...
...that one great reason why games have been played there in the past is that they are more successful financially than when played in smaller towns. Quick to appreciate this, New York people have come to regard a big college game like any other sort of show and to feel that, paying their admission money, they have a right to order when, where and how the show shall proceed...
...with never a semblance of rough play. It was the kind of football any one must take pleasure in watching, - the kind that it is perfectly possible for any two elevens to play. Messrs. Forbes, Bancroft and Crane, who have directed the training of the eleven, have reason to feel well satisfied with their work. To them and to the team and its substitutes is due the gratitude of the whole University...
...health for that reason alone. In the next two months we are sure to hear endless schemes and proposals for reforming the game most, of which will be utterly worthless. We believe that if the men who intend offering advice will stop to think a moment of what they feel were the worst features of the game last Saturday, and will then consider what the effect would have been had the present rules been rigidly enforced in all instances, they will be not a little surprised...