Word: felt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...they are meant to do the double duty of stimulating study and helping poor students. There is however a need, which has become much more appreciated within the last few years, of giving more marked recognition to good scholarly work irrespective of pecuniary need. In other words, it is felt that the student in comfortable or well-to-do circumstances has been slighted, and he it is that needs the spur of competition,- if anything, more than the poorer man, whose scant means are a protection against the distractions to which others are liable. Now comes the Ricardo Fellowship...
...contest was held strictly on its merits, and the best team won, showing particular superiority in rebuttal, the final test of debating skill. The shortness of the time required by the judges to reach the decision shows conclusively that they felt little cause for hesitation...
Some Yale men would not have felt very badly at the revival of victory at Cambridge and yet no Yale man can stifle his pride in his football team for this year. Every Yale man was gratified that the revived relationship between the two universities was attended by such equal manifestations of skill...
...accident of phrase has really occasioned such a misapprehension at Yale, the CRIMSON and all Harvard men regret it sincerely, for never in the history of their intercourse has Harvard felt more kindly disposed toward her old rivals than at this time of reconciliation. Her attitude toward her own team is something which it is unreasonable for any outsider to question, but that it implies any criticism of her opponents, or disparages in any way the splendid record of the Yale team, is far from the truth. Harvard has not in the past been slow to admire manly qualities...
...project will be furthered to the utmost by the co-operation of the students. It has been suggested that a bust of Phillips Brooks would aid greatly in impressing on the minds of visitors the original object of the building and in bringing to their memory his heart-felt sympathy and depth of interest in every branch of student life...