Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defeat our team when it has begun regular work in the spring, games arranged with them in future will give our men much needed practice and enable them to enter the intercollegiate games much better prepared than they have ever been before. The practice games will fill a long felt need. Yale and Princeton have been near enough to other teams to arrange matches before the championship games, but Harvard has had to depend for practice upon its daily work in Cambridge. The new clubs are young and active and anxious to arrange games, so that in future the Harvard...
...lamentable lack of enthusiasm which has been felt by the college in the tennis tournament this fall ought to be the means of bringing about a change in the method of conducting future tournaments. This fall the tennis association, alleging as an excuse the lack of a sufficient number of courts, allowed the tournament to be played on any courts and at any time. Consequently it was impossible to watch the play. No one, except the actual contestants, knew when or where a game was to be played. In fact the only way in which the gentleman who had charge...
...Maryland before the Revolution, when it was, as Mr. Brown says, a Palatinate. Wrtten in an easy style, it quickly commends itself to the reader. The authorities for the statements contained in it are the original manuscript records and archives of the state. This volume fills a want long felt, and will be of particular service in History in preparation...
...freshies and endeavored to wrest the came from their midst. Their efforts were not successful. The freshmen kept possession of the stick, beating off their opponents again and again. Finally one of the '88 men, holding the cane in his left hand, was making off with it when he felt a hand placed upon his shoulder. Feeling himself attacked, he hit out with his other fist and struck President Barnard in the shoulder; for it was he who, interfering to stop the rush, had laid his hand upon the freshman. Nothing daunted, the president returned the blow in a manner...
...freshman year, and the instructors in Latin, Greek and Mathematics probably congratulate themselves on having got rid of their slowest students and the worst of the examination books. But we cannot tell yet. It will be two or three years before the effects of the change will be fully felt. The friends of Latin, Greek and Mathematics will be sorry to see the advanced electives in these subjects slowly thin out. Harvard is already accused of perverting and vitiating the degree of Bachelor of Arts; and we should be loosen to lose the advantage we now hold of offering advanced...