Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been brought about by the impracticable set of regulations recently proposed. Yet it is a condition not altogether satisfactory. Harvard still lacks the services of a suitable director of field sports. If she had such a director the prohibition against employing any "professional" trainer would not be so severely felt. The attempt at inter-collegiate faculty regulation of athletics thus it would seem has signally failed. The Harvard faculty has blindly followed this ignis fatuus until it has led it into the swamp where it now finds itself. Little credit has resulted to the college from its efforts, undertaken...
...Shelley, comparing the grandeur of the world of struggle in the early part of the play, with the comparative emptiness of the world after the triumph of Prometheus reduces, at the end of the third act, the whole of life to a mass of disconnected joys. This Shelley felt, and tried in the fourth act, to reintroduce organic unity into the world...
...imminent danger that this calamity will take place. The society closed the last fiscal year in excellent financial condition, as was shown in the statement published by us in yesterday's issue; it is doing good work in effecting savings to members, and its usefulness is so generally felt that it would not be permitted in any event to expire. The number of members needed to keep up the society is therefore pretty sure to join sooner or later. But many who mean to join have delayed in doing so through mere negligence or carelessness or forgetfulness. We hope that...
...trustees and have put forth a circular letter. Unfortunately for them their troubles do not seem to be confined to the athletic resolves. Widespread espionage, exercised throughout the college and town, and an arduous system of examinations, recently introduced, figure quite as prominently as athletics. However much we felt oppressed by the premature and hasty interference of the faculty in athletics, we have never been, and do not expect to be, harassed by any prying inquiries into our private affairs by that body. We, at Harvard, certainly enjoy more liberty in our personal affairs than any other college. This freedom...
This result is what we felt justified in expecting, and we feel sure that this action on their part will go far toward restoring the harmony between faculty and students which has of late years been such a source of gratification to all the friends of Harvard...