Word: felting
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...Conference Committee, in spite of fears felt by many students, has demonstrated its right of existence. The improvement in the general character of yesterday's meeting over that of the last, is deserving of attention. The rules proposed by the senior members, can but aid in giving direction to discussion, and in preventing useless meetings. The resolutions adopted also show positive signs of life. These resolutions will go before the faculty, and will serve to bring an evil to their notice, in a manner in which it has never before been presented, from the side of student conviction. The marking...
...tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what he has neither seen nor felt. Of course you can often relate what you have not actually beheld; but still you must have something on which to base your ideas; you must have before you a real fact or passion which you may idealize...
However great the dislike felt in regard to attendance at morning chapel, the Harvard student has to bear the unpleasantness of this attendance and is interested in all that is likely to make things more to his taste. We suggest, therefore, that men who intend going to chapel any morning, endeavor to be in their seats promptly. The lines of men that file in late almost every morning now give to the services a feature that is both disgraceful and thoroughly out of place. There is no reason why attendance, as long as it must be, should not be prompt...
...Palmer, '88, pitcher of the '88 nine, and Edgerley, '86, may play. Seven members of last year's nine and three substitutes are in college, and intend to play. The strongest batsmen remain, although the absence of Beaman, '85, the third baseman, who was a hard hitter, will be felt. With the old battery, Allen and Nichols, and a strong infield, and excellent candidates for the vacant positions, the prospect is that Harvard will be represented this year by a nine inferior in no respects to the championship nine of 1885. The candidates for the nine go into training...
...closing, the writer expresses the fears felt as to the ultimate results of the New Education. "A tendency to self-indulgence and shallowness," "the effect upon academies and fitting schools of the country," "the effect on the higher education" and "the effect on the character of the youth," are the fears which lead Prof. Ladd to oppose the New Education...