Word: felted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...place and here the men will spend their nights up to the time of the Yale game. As they will all be under one roof the work of talking over plays and discussing the plans for the game will of course be made much easier. It is also felt that the change of diet may help the men. The team will come down by train to Allston every morning, where barges will be in waiting and will bring the men up to College in time for recitations...
...neighborhood of seventeen thousand people at the game, each one of whom is assigned to some particular seat. The majority have been to the game before and have become accustomed to finding their places on one side or the other. If a change were made it is felt that there would surely be some persons who would start in the wrong way and probably in the crowding and pushing not a few would pass the wrong gate, and cause no end of trouble to the ushers and gate-keepers...
Every man who saw the game with the Boston Athletic Association yesterday afternoon must have felt encouraged at the work done by the 'varsity. There are enough faults, to be sure, to show that the team is yet far from championship form, but there is every sign of improvement and none of the discouraging indications that the men are in too fine condition, which have often been noticed weeks before the Yale game...
...also to bring into the work other men who were not members of any religious organization, but were ready to help in the common charity. The reason that brought men of different creeds and doctrines together to work side by side lay in the fact that they all felt the same deep love for God and man, and they knew that these sentiments were best expressed by philanthropic work...
...spirits were supposed to feel, but more intensely, the same emotions that they felt in life. There was an idea of reward and retribution, but in most cases it considered only the attainment of that first of savage virtues, namely, courage, though sometimes obedience to the will of the gods was thought to meet with a recompense. In Mexico there was a highly organized system which provided three separate destinies according to the way in which death was caused...