Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suffered recession. Advance has been the rule, while retrogradation has been unknown. Finally, with regard to the relations between faculty and students, the improvement has been very marked. A Faculty-Student Conference Committee has been established, and has already shown itself extremely successful. The need of co-operation was felt, and has partially been met, and the measures taken now give promise of perfect satisfaction to all in time to come...
...select, has succeeded in getting together a crew of which Harvard need feel no shame, whatever may be its success at New London. Let the crew remember that it is on the water that Harvard has ever looked for success with the greatest confidence, and that defeat there is felt most grievously. The college bids you good by, and hopes and believes that you will not break the long series of victories which have this year come to Harvard...
...country, many of them coming from the best families in point of culture and breeding, and from the best schools we have. They were all boys with blood in their veins, and brains in their heads, and tongues that could talk fast enough and to the purpose when they felt at ease. Many of them had enjoyed The Tempest-as who that can understand it does not?- but somehow the touch of pen or pencil paralyzed their powers...
...catching of Woodbury, two sharp plays by Boyden at second base, and a long running catch by Burnett in centre field. The game was called at the close of the 11th inning on account of darkness. This game had an important bearing on the championship, and gret interest was felt in its result...
...than we had expected and feared. Now and then a line, especially if it had a pathetic or humerous purport, would come out in quite a human way. The most striking general failing was a tendency to make too many pauses in a sentence, as if the young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies...