Word: felted
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Dean W. C. Sabine '88 welcomed to the University Professors G. E. Swain and H. E. Clifford of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Clifford declared that he felt a close attraction to Harvard, due largely to his memories of Dean Shaler. Professor Swain spoke of his great interest in Harvard and of the great opportunities offered by connection with the University. Engineers have never acquired worldwide fame, said Professor Swain, and probably never will, although the profession is being placed upon a higher plane. Of the 40 men in the Hall of Fame in New York...
...eight games played. Their competitors came from places where basketball is rated more highly than at Cambridge, as a consequence of which the games were usually one-sided. When they played in the Hemenway Gymnasium, Harvard men turned out in very small numbers and the team undoubtedly felt that to many of the undergraduates it was no great concern whether they won or lost...
Ever since the demand for men of practical scientific attainments reached such enormous proportions, the need of a new training school for such men at Harvard has been felt with ever-increasing force, and has led to the birth of the Graduate School of Applied Science. Following the example set by the Faculties of Law and Medicine, the founders of the new institution aimed to place it in the front rank. An opportunity was provided when the McKay bequest became available last January, and the first step towards the desired expansion was made with the appointment of Professors Swain...
...adversaries may feel that this step is proposed in order to get more winning teams, but this is not the case, as is shown by the fact that practically no good athletes prefer to discard their sports for professional studies. It is simply felt that such a harmful rule should be changed into a better one. The desire to be fair to our opponents has been carried too far, and a regulation has been made which is unfair to the more diligent of our own undergraduates...
...team not ready to play 10 minutes after scheduled time will for felt the game...