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Word: felt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...term "sporting the oak" has but little significance here at Harvard, and it would be well if, in this custom as in others, we followed the example of our English cousins. We have often heard, and oftener felt, the justness of the complaint that no one can "sport his-oak" here without running the risk of offending any of his friends who may happen to knock and not be admitted. A student is apt to think, when a man shows he is unable to work with him sitting by idle, and interrupting with a remark now and then, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...tell you, Bob, about a week before the College Regatta our men begin to take the interest which should be felt now, and all the time; and until it is felt, Harvard will have to stay in the Convention and be beaten every year. As I said before, the majority of fellows here don't take any interest in athletics, don't care for politics, don't read, won't study, and can't even talk outside the limited tether of college elections, gossip, the theatre, the lightest reading of the Saturday Evening Gazette, and the funny columns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HARVARD PLUCK." | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...their long labors of love and training. But a death like his is especially sad, because he was himself endowed with a strong sense of right, with reverence towards his Maker, and with an unceasing love for his parents. He was noble, refined, and manly. His loss is deeply felt by all his friends...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEODORE FISKE STIMPSON | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...their friends, both sides fighting like tigers. The ball was run up and down from one goal to another, Wetherbee of the Harvards making two beautiful runs. Harrington of Tufts kept up his well-earned reputation until he was disabled, and although he pluckily kept to his work, Tufts felt his loss and the ball stuck closer to their side. Herrick with a beautiful run and drop-kick at the side of the field, thirty yards from the goal, sent the ball between the posts, and Faucon rushed in and secured the ball. The Harvard men rushed pell-mell into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TUFTS vs. HARVARD. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

...Felt the grandeur of the scene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHIMES OF LUCERNE. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

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