Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expect to do some excellent work during the coming season. Mr. Camp, the trainer of the club, was in this city yesterday and stated to a Herald reporter that he thought the Yale College team would be one of the finest fielding college nines in the arena, and he felt certain that they would also make their mark as batsmen. He has eighteen men exercising in the gymnasium, and this year the selection of players will be made on a different plan than heretofore. The two teams are to be pitted against each other in a dozen games or more...
...which two lours of recitations per week were held throughout the entire year, was certainly a failure when viewed in this light. And in truth this was only a natural result. Aside from the lack of interest which was due to the intervale between the recitations, every man felt that such courses demanded more work from him than he was given credit for doing. It was openly acknowledged that two half-courses were far more than an equivalent to one full course, and yet in reality they were held to be equal, and could be substituted for each other. Naturally...
Rapid transit is fast coming to Boston, or at least to the line of communication where the crying need of it has been most sorely felt-the road from Cambridge into Boston. Residents of the university town must still jog along by horse cars three-quarters of an hour to get into the city. Various schemes of improvement have been suggested hitherto, but nothing has been effected beyond a new horse-car line in competition with the horse-car monopoly of the past thirty years. The elevated railroad project, which has received this week a large majority in the lower...
...flow under them and are consequently dry at all times when it is not actually snowing or raining. It is not necessary that every walk should be thus improved, but the important ones in constant use at all hours should be made walkable. Especially is the need felt of some change in the long flag walk running the whole length of the yard. In places this walk is in worse condition than it would be without any flagging. In many cases the stones are out of the level or so worn that they hold the water in broad pools which...
...without. Inter-collegiate rivalry is the life of any thorough system of outdoor athletics. That the smaller colleges are taking up with this system and forming leagues for themselves shows not only the force of the example of larger colleges in this matter, but indicates also the need everywhere felt for such a stimulus as inter-collegiate contests afford...