Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have come across the following passage of a letter written by Daniel Webster to his son Fletcher, who was about to be graduated at Harvard, in 1833: "I have seldom felt so much concern about anything of the kind as I do upon your success upon that occasion. I pray you spare no pains. Do your best, and you will do well enough. I earnestly remind you of the necessity of acting with great caution in regard to all festivities. You remember what I said to you on that head, and I pray you forget no part of it." - [Scholastic...
...counters. At the end of the second round both men appeared fresh and no blood had been drawn. Time was called for the third round at 3.40. Sharp sparring was done on both sides, and many hard blows were given and received. Butler, however, in the third round evidently felt the work tell on him, while Dorr remained seemingly fresh. By decision of the judges the bout was awarded to Butler...
...possible to select eight men who will certainly work hard to bring the "blue" ahead at New London next summer. The crew row regularly on the Sound and have not lost a day for some time. Storrs went out for the first time last Tuesday, and made his presence felt in the boat. He will not begin regular training till the first of May. There are now twenty men training for the nine, but Captain Badger will select from these at the end of the week thirteen who will continue training while the others will cease, except those who will...
There is an extraordinary diversity among Harvard instructors in their methods of marking examination papers, and in several instances they have felt impelled to declare their views and systems. One instructor has said, "60 per cent. is a very good mark," while another of equal authority and prominence has declared that 70 per cent. is merely "a defensive mark," and supports his view by giving almost all the men in his elective who do any work a mark above that limit, such marks being exceptional in the other course. Between these range numerous other instructors' views which are diverse...
...members from the student class of this country; and this fact shows not only the active interest of this class in such questions, but also its discrimination in the choice of instructors in political principles. That students the world over are a patriotic and liberty-loving class is generally-felt. Yet the rebuke implied in the following sentence from Senator Hoar's oration on Garfield, is without doubt sometimes deserved: "Beyond all," Mr. Hoar says, "Dr. Hopkins taught his pupils that lesson in which some of our colleges so sadly fail - reverence for the Republican life of which they were...