Word: felted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Yale oarsman went to the summer home of Professor Ames at Castine, to confer with him further upon the question. Professor Ames repeated to Mr. Cowles the substance of what he had said to Mr. Adee, and refused to make any overtures to Yale in the matter. He felt that Yale must send an invitation to Harvard to meet her in football, before Harvard could agree to play. He did say, however, that he would do nothing further in the matter until the college year opened and the undergraduates returned to Cambridge. He said that he would hold November...
...this fall between the two colleges. The result of this interview was not very satisfactory. Professor Ames explained at length to Mr. Adee the way Harvard looked at the matter. That she did not regard the question as one concerning football merely, but of general athletic relations. If Yale felt that Harvard's conduct had been such that she could not meet her in football, then Harvard felt that it would be impossible for her to meet Yale in any sport. That in taking this ground Harvard was not actuated by any spirit of hostility, nor of retaliation. That Harvard...
...meeting of the class of '97 was held in Upper Massachusetts last night. It was voted that the president be empowered to appoint a committee which should express by letter to Mr. Irving, the grief which is felt by the class of '97 at the death, during the past summer, of their beloved friend and classmate, Henry du Pont Irving. The following class officers were re-elected: President, Robert H. Stevenson; vice-president, John W. Dunlop; secretary, James Dean...
Yale, so often victorious in the intercollegiate contests of late, has felt the sting of repeated defeat in debating, and the recent enlargement of her English department, in part, we must believe, to meet the situation, is now well-known. Princeton, the home of debating, has awakened to the fact that we were more than her match. Our enviable position in the past has been made and maintained by the earnest work of a body of men who were interested in speaking, and who had the good of their University deeply at heart. As the time comes to fill their...
...find practically the entire college on the watch to welcome them and help them out of difficulties. As a result they were continually making mistakes and wasting their time and energy through ignorance which a timely question or two might have prevented. The evils of this were felt throughout the early part of the term, not only by the students themselves, but to a considerable extent by the college authorities...