Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This plan of offering prizes is an excellent one and cannot fail to promote the interest already felt in musical matters at Yale. There is no reason why it should not commend itself to men at Harvard...
...Still, it is necessary that any kind of a workman should have good tools, and a college education undoubtedly furnishes much that a journalist needs in his profession. Horace Greeley, after he had risen to promineuce as an editor, felt his deficiency in that regard. Some of the brightest and most graceful editorial writers have been men whose training and equipment was had at college. Henry J. Raymond was a notable example of this. I might mention also Manton Marble. Mr. Schuyler, of our paper, is a college man and a writer of so graceful and pure English that editorials...
...Mott Haven games in New York last spring, the H. A. A. was not represented in the hurdle race, but, from the present outlook, such will not be the case this year. It was felt last year that much depended on the short flat races. Yale and Columbia had fast and experienced hurdlers, while Harvard had none at regular work. Hurdling is a race which requires quite as much "knack" as physical qualities. With such a handicap it was thought unwise to sacrifice any of our sprinters to a probable failure. This year, however, a new hurdle race has been...
There is great interest felt in college at present in the fight the Prohibitionists are making against the saloon in Princeton. Many of the college men are taking an active part in it, and if prohibition is carried it will be in a great part due to the efforts of the college and seminary. Rev. Dr. Cuyler, of New York, delivered a lecture here last evening on "The Liquor Question and Drinking Usages," which has aroused great enthusiasm among the advocates of prohibition and will undoubtedly have a great influence on the election a week from...
...consist of the election of officers and the reading of reports from the various committees and from the superintendent. The past year has been the most successful in the history of the society. Under the system that prevailed up to the beginning of the present year, considerable dissatisfaction was felt to exist, and to remove this the present system was devised by the superintendent, Mr. Waterman, and adopted by the society. The wisdom of this change is shown by the fact that the amount of business transacted this year has been sixty per cent greater than last year. In some...