Word: feels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...once. If the result of the games is to show anything like the real strength of Ninety-eight in track and field sports more men must begin work under Mr. Lathrop. There are doubtless many men in the class who are not physically able to play football, yet who feel they would like to do something this fall in athletics. To such the track offers the greatest chance of attaining success. The greatest number of successful athletes at Harvard have always been men who have come to college with no athletic reputation, but who have developed by earnest conscientious work...
...that this standard should be retained. To this end the Glee Club, like every other University organization, depends each year on the interest shown by the students. The greater the number of candidates, the better the chances for a good club; and every man who presents himself tonight may feel that he is serving not only his own best interests, but those of the University as well...
...enough to be in Harvard are old enough to be sensible, and that they are not debarred from using their sense on subjects which have an element of excitement in them. There are good, strong reasons why there should be no disturbance tonight, and these reasons, we feel, can be brought to notice to advantage...
...also that a foreign language, quite as much as a dead one, has the advantage of putting whatever is written in it at just such a distance as is needed for a proper mental perspective. No doubt this strangeness, this novelty, adds much to the pleaure we feel in reading the literature of other languages than our own. It plays the part of poet for us by putting familiar things in an unaccustomed way so deftly that we feel as if we had gained another sense and had ourselves a share in the sorcery that is practiced...
...game yesterday was not one in which Harvard could have pride, but it also was not one by which Harvard need feel disgraced. Yale was clearly stronger, but Harvard was not altogether weak...