Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hardly probable, from the present outlook, that the grounds enclosed by the new track will be ready for use early in the spring, the want of sufficient space for our sports will be as severely felt then as now. Particularly will this apply to tennis. Many valuable courts have been destroyed by the new athletic grounds and their loss is sorely felt. If the nine is obliged to practice on Jarvis in the spring, the number of courts cannot be greatly increased over the present limited supply and much discontent will be the result. To prevent this, the Tennis Association...
EDITORS HERALD-CRIMSON: Considerable annoyance has been felt since the term began, from peddlars, beggars, traders and book agents, who have been calling at the rooms of the students in the college buildings. The notices in all the entries seem to have lost their power of former years, and are now passed by unnoticed. The nuisance at present, is not a very grew, but in time it is likely to become even unbearable...
...decent proficiency in the game. When other freshmen classes have sent thirty men to the park from the first of the season, the class of '87 has never at one time had more than six. Six men out of 170 ! When you entered this college you no doubt felt yourself weighed down by the glory of Yale's past victories, but do not for a minute think that the college is going to keep on and do the heavy work while you look on in indolence. You must do something, and that right speedilym for the good of your college...
...thousand pities that Harvard men so eschew politics, for in either party they could and should make their influence felt on the side of justice and honor which lack sadly now-a-days the support of educated men. Now and then a young graduate rises above the superb indifference that is the accepted type of the Harvard man today, and puts his shoulder to the wheel and blocks corrupt legislation as at Albany, or makes a ringing crusade as The "Nation" and is generously rewarded with the praise of all collegians. The worst of it all is so many...
Those friends of the "higher education of women" who have finally achieved their wish in gaining the advantages of Columbia College for their young female students, are very angry because only two young women apply to be let in. The result is attributed much to the want of interest felt by the trustees of Columbia, but the trouble lies deeper. There are but few New York girls of the higher class of mind who desire it. There is not that tendency toward study here which exists in the East and in the West. The young women who would have attended...