Word: felted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...title to first place in track and field athletics remained unquestioned, and the students took the deepest interest in the work of the team. Everyone used to go out and see the games, and everyone who could afford it joined the Association, for in this way the students felt that they could help the team most effectively...
...resignation of Professor Peirce, Dean of the Graduate School, calls attention to the vigorous growth of this branch of the University under his care. It is now felt that the migration of advanced students from one university to another should be promoted, and that, to this end, the only prescription as to residence, should be the general statute-not less than one year's residence for every ordinary degree. A Graduate Fellowship without stipend has been established as an experiment with the title of John Harvard Fellow. It is hoped thus to offer acceptable distinction to men of high scholarship...
...faculty became firmly convinced that the offenders did not infringe the rule through ignorance, but thinking they could keep within the prescribed limits. Therefore it was decided that such men did not deserve the privilege of further representing the university. Although this rule seems hard at first, it is felt that in the end it will succeed in its purpose of raising the standard of amateur athletics. So that while it may injure the chances of successful athletic teams for the present, it will prove of lasting benefit to sports of all kinds...
...impetus was given to athletics at Columbia last June when the 'varsity crew defeated Cornell and Pennsylvania on the Hudson. In every branch of sport at Columbia the influence of this race has been felt. It has been considered best by W. H. Fearing, Jr., and Trainer Fred Stone, not to put the candidates for the Mott Haven team into training until after the mid-year examinations, which will end on February 8, but they have already singled out the men who, by their records in the past, should show up well in their respective events...
...last November to look into the status of debating at Yale. Its report was made at a large and representative meeting on the 17th inst., and from the needlessness of further action at present, a resolution was unanimously adopted to assure Yale of the deep interest which the association felt in the revival of debating. The subject will receive more careful and deliberate attention later. The Board of Arbitration in the matter of the disposition of the Morrill Fund, and the damages due Yale and the Storrs's Agricultural College has awarded Yale $154,000 from the state, after...