Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shall be guided aright." We must argue from the words of the speaker that the course of Harvard is truly a course of progress, and as such is slowly forcing itself on the minds of the faculty and of the president of Yale. Dr. Porter said that he felt as if he were pronouncing his own funeral oration. Was he not rather in reality pronouncing the funeral oration of the old style of education? Cannot we be justified in thinking that the course of events has already demonstrated the position assumed by Harvard as advanced and progressive? Increase...
...story of how these men felt the animal over and how each one thereby judged it, all the judgments differing, is familiar...
...refuse to be guided by reason, would certainly get benefit from learning the exact stand taken by the Overseers. We might come to see the unreasonableness of our demands, if they are reasonable. It would be much easier to enforce all rules of college discipline, if most of us felt that the rules were just. A meeting for the free exchange of views between us, and those over us, would result in a more hearty co-operation between the governed and the governors of this university. If nearly ninety per cent. of us are in error about morning prayers...
There is a need felt by many students which the elective pamphlet does not satisfy. A course is demanded in common English law, not for those students who intend to become lawyers, but for those who are looking forward to business. Such a course, embracing the general features of common business law and the every-day methods of procedure, would meet with approval at large among our students, and would be productive of practical results of value. The subject is no more technical than that of political economy or the study of finance. It is kindred to the subjects...
...When the question of restricting membership to the Union was discussed last spring many doubts were expressed as to the advisability of making any change. The past year had been an unusually prosperous one for the society, and many felt that a movement towards any exclusiveness in membership might result in a lessening of the interest which the college at large would take in the debates of the Union. In making a report for the past half year your Executive Committee takes pleasure in saying that these fears have not been realized; that, on the contrary, greater interest...