Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...most college athletes have been in the habit of receiving, and naturally the results will be below the standard. Although we may keep the championship cup this year without the services of a competent trainer, we can hardly expect to do so hereafter. The lack of good training is felt as much in this as in other branches of athletics. We again express our hope that the faculty will next year see fit to allow some different arrangement in regard to trainers than that of this year...
...races under the auspices of the Harvard Bicycle Club took place at Beacon Park yesterday afternoon, and were a complete success. A slight wind made its presence felt by impairing the records; otherwise the weather was all that could be desired...
...college faculty have passed a vote advising the corporation that in their opinion it would be unwise to build a fence round the new athletic grounds. The reasons for taking this step were numerous. In the first place it was felt by many members of the faculty that the building of the fence would be undemocratic, in that it would prevent a large number of men from witnessing the games on account of inability to pay the price of admission. To the minds of some the matter appears in its mercenary aspect, and it is feared that the erection...
...never be forgotten. Respect for the dignity of labor, reverence for law, the value of the varied industries and thrifty economics which amass the means that philanthropy so grandly uses are nowhere better exemplified, and the salutary and harmonizing influences which the civil institutions of Massachusetts inspire will be felt to the farthest borders of our land...
...story yellow house which has often attracted attention, contrasting as it does so strongly with the large buildings which occupy the southern portion of the field. This little building is the college hospital, and, although small, it is yet perfect in all its arrangements. In 1874 the authorities felt the need of an institution of this sort in connection with the college, for twice in recent years the breaking out of a contagious disease had found the college unprepared for such an emergency. In the first of these cases the president had promptly thrown open his house to the sick...