Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Great dissatisfaction is felt with a recent rule by which only communicants are ever allowed to substitute attendance on a Poughkeepsie church for Sunday morning chapel, and then only on the communion Sundays of their respective denominations. Until 1876 students whose parents preferred them to attend church in town were allowed to do so regularly. From 1876 to 1882 students could easily obtain permission to do so at irregular intervals. Now no such permission is granted. The only reason given for this is that "the president likes to have the chapel filled up." This restriction, which forces girls of every...
...senior class of Yale College visited the Willimantic mills Tuesday. The News felt called on to give a three-quarter column lecture to them Tuesday morning, in regard to the way in which they ought to behave...
...very strange, however, that the college papers paid so little heed to a game which was unknown to most of the students. Even the records of the Lacrosse Association were very few previous to 1879, and these have been destroyed, as if the despairing supporters of the game felt that they had attempted too much in trying to introduce a new sport into a college where boating was at its height, where base-ball was all the rage, and where tennis and rifle clubs were rising into prominence. Lacrosse, though of slow, has still been of sure growth...
...examining the table, we find that the fluctuations in the rate of increase of membership depends almost entirely upon the needs felt by the men at the several seasons of the year...
...seen, therefore, that the times and rates of joining are not determined by any artificial impulse. There are two periods of maximum increase - the one about the 1st of June, the other near the 1st of October, which depend directly on the wants felt by the men at those times, and which consequently cannot be hastened or retarded by any artificial means. On the other hand, they may be depended upon with a tolerable degree of certainty...