Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stated in yesterday's issue of the CRIMSON, great dissatisfaction is felt by the freshman class and by the captain of the freshman crew because many of the men who were members of the football team will not begin training for the crew. Only a few have presented themselves as candidates. Every freshman crew gets its strongest and best candidates from the men who made up the football eleven in the fall. This is the usual custom, and it can not be departed from in the present case. The men who refuse to come out and try for the crew...
...junior and senior crews speaks well for the work which those classes intend to do. The sophomores need all the new material which it is possible for them to obtain. The men who commenced with the freshman crew are still hard at work, but great dissatisfaction is felt with the eleven. As yet only a small number of them have presented themselves as candidates for the crew. The crews go through the regular system of gymnasium training which it has been customary to use in past years. The following is a list of the candidates for the four class crews...
...joined the Commission on Admission Examinations. The commission, which will comprise one faculty member from each college, has still another object in view-the establishment of a system by which the requirements for admission will be more uniform than they are at present. The need of which has been felt by many young men who have been compelled to go to preparatory schools which made a specialty of fitting for some college other than the one they wished to enter. Thus a good deal of the regular school work was unnecessary, and had to be made up by extra work...
...short time ago the Pennsylvania Club challenged the Connecticut Club to a joint debate. A committee from the two clubs decided to hold the debate last Monday evening in Sever 11. The details of the debate were arranged and much interest was felt in both clubs in regard to the result. The purpose of thus holding a joint debate was to keep up the interest in the organizations of men from the States of Pennsylvania and Connecticut. The Pennsylvania Club has, however, withdrawn its challenge for the alleged reason that none of its members were willing to become principal disputants...
...publish a communication urging the establishment of a chair of journalism at Harvard. Each succeeding year witnesses the enlargement of the curriculum by the new courses in modern languages, science and philosophy, but not a step has yet been made to establish a course whose need is greatly felt. The fear either of the total failure, or but partial success, of a course in journalism is what deters the faculty from taking the initiative, and unfortunately there is no precedent at other colleges by which it is easy to judge the benefit of such a course. Lately, however, Cornell...