Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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THROWING THE HAMMER.Coxe of Yale, Rushmore of Columbia, Brinton, '87, U. of Penn., and Gibson, '88, and Allen, M S. were the contestants. Gibson and Allen both made throws over 80 ft, at which Coxe felt scared, and trembled, but not for long. He made at last a throw of 88 ft. 1-2 in. and won the event, Gibson was second with 82 ft. 4 in. to his credit...
...courses for upper-classmen are: In German one, a half course which is for "practice in writing and speaking German," and which will satisfy a need that has long been felt by the less advanced students of German; in Political Economy, one; in History, two, and in Mathematics, three. The new course in German, numbered 9, will doubtless prove very successful and popular. Conducted by Prof. Bartlett, it is a great addition to the German department. The new courses, Political Economy 10 and History 20, open only to graduates and other students of advanced standing, are destined to be very...
...Black this afternoon. Lacrosse has been one of the sports in which Harvard has excelled always, even winning in 1882 the Oelrich cup emblematic of the amateur championship of America. Our twelve has, by steady work, developed a strong system of team play, which will make its presence felt in the game of to-day while our veteran individual players will do their utmost to make up for the defeats of last year...
...second place, as to the report faculty members are to make to the conference of action the faculty may have taken on the resolution of a previous conference, the Advocate says: "It would be better if the student members felt they had the right to ask the grounds on which the faculty based its action in case of disagreement." The faculty struck out the original clause requlring this, not because they were unwilling that this should be done, but because they knew from experience that it could not be done, exactly, authoritatively and officially. It would be impossible to give...
...financial managers of the institution of the advisability of employing a yard policeman by day, as well as a watchman at night, not to interfere with the students in any way, but to keep the yard from being, as now, the play-yard of Cambridge youths. We have felt for years the necessity of such a step, and sincerely hope that the plan will be carried into operation...