Word: felted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work is the power it has of hypnotising its readers. Mr. Copeland felt that the first part of the book did exercise this influence upon him, but that just as soon as Trilby began to be hypnotised, he began to wake up, and from that time the book fell off in interest tremendously. The one person in the book, he said...
...soberer moments probably most of us have felt something of the influence referred to. But it would surely be immeasurably stronger if there were something to remind us constantly of the men who have lived and worked here before us. In a few rooms in the older buildings there are portraits of former occupants who have become distinguished. These portraits have invariably, we believe, been purchased by appreciative students and left with the request that they be allowed to remain. Had this plan been more commonly followed who can doubt the pleasure to present and future generations which would have...
...Yale side Chauncey was the star and Yale felt his loss severely when he was injured. Betts punted well and with good judgment. In the rush line Murray, the left tackle, rushed well with the ball, and Hazen followed the ball and tackled well...
...sure that every upper-class man shared the pride and joy which the freshmen felt in their victory over Yale. It was a grand game from start to finish, stubbornly contested by each side, yet with never a semblance of rough play. It was the kind of football any one must take pleasure in watching, - the kind that it is perfectly possible for any two elevens to play. Messrs. Forbes, Bancroft and Crane, who have directed the training of the eleven, have reason to feel well satisfied with their work. To them and to the team and its substitutes...
...indignation felt at Yale in consequence of the proposed police interference in case of brutality in the game with Princeton, may be an important factor in effecting a change in the place of the annual games...