Word: felting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college sport that players should return to college merely to engage in athletic contests. Last year there was a similar case at Harvard. So convinced was this Committee of the evils of the practice, that this year all candidates for the Eleven about whom any doubt was felt were sharply inquired about. The cases of five among thirty-one candidates were thus specially investigated. All of these five gentle men were and are "bona fide students on the rolls" of the University; against four of them efficient protest was lodged by this Committee or some other authority of the University...
...proved ineffective. A Princeton player, who was challenged under them as ineligible to play, took refuge in a technicality at the meeting held Nov. 14, and refused to answer any questions, and Yale and Harvard were outvoted by Princeton and the smaller colleges. The Harvard Football Association then felt that only one course was open to it, namely-to withdraw from the present League, and to frame rules which should suppress present objectionable practices, and should govern the constitution of its own team hereafter. This course left open for future consideration the question of forming a new league...
...long needed, and the new arrangement will no doubt for a time satisfy the urgency. Ultimately, however, even the present accommodations will grow too small, and then a new building will be in order. Boylston Hall is certainly fast becoming out of date and inadequate. Already some inconvenience is felt in the laboratory accommodations and this is bound to increase with every new year. A new and finer laboratory is only a question of time. Now that Harvard has become in reality a university, her needs press upon her harder than ever, but these very needs are pleasing evidences...
...said that many feel that our system of religion is not apt to work for, the best interests of the students; that the popular impression is that Harvard influences are not of the best. He spoke merely as an outsider, and as one who knew very little but felt a great interest. He hoped that the students would individually do all in their power to correct these impressions of Harvard. Rev. Phillips Brooks then addressed the meeting at length. He dwelt upon the difficulty which a university offers of forming large circles of acquaintances; men tend to collect into small...
...opening of next term the new Osborne Recitation Hall will be ready occupation. The need of more proper rooms for lectures and recitations has been felt and this building will meet all the requirements, With this new hall and a gymnasium under way of construction two long wished for things seem all but obtained...