Word: feel
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Those whose sense of patriotism is not summed up in enthusiasm for the military side of national life could not but feel a poignant sense of regret at the unexpected announcement in Monday's issue of the CRIMSON of the vote to be taken on Wednesday by way of registering the sentiments of the student body in regard to the much-agitated system of universal military training. Without having given an opportunity in its columns for discussion pro and con, the CRIMSON declares emphatically that "Harvard's immediate task is to throw her influence in support of this principle...
...more. But deluded as they are they will in all likelihood continue their agitation. Probaby they will do so principally outside the University where there exists a less favored but considerable body of citizens whose sense of obligation to their country is not so lively because, perhaps, they feel that they have less from that country. If the pacifist propaganda makes headway among such sections of public opinion--as it shows signs of doing--it will mean that something bigger and more difficult must be attended to before the campaign for conscription can be put through. It will mean that...
...years ago all teaching in Harvard's department of philosophy and psychology; now the first three are dead, the fourth has gone back to his native continent, and the fifth has retired. A successor as distinguished as any one of them is not immediately in sight, and Harvard must feel deeply her losses in a division of instruction that drew students even from abroad--as the brilliant editor of the Hibbert Journal, L. P. Jacks. Many of the departments even in a university like Harvard are departments whose strength resides chiefly in one man. When an Agassiz or a Shaler...
...course of idleness is not clear. The other numbers those who, in full consciousness of the situation, deliberately choose the primrose path. The latter class is hopeless. If to the former, however, this danger signal shall be a prod and a stimulus, we shall be glad, for we feel that the curse of loafing is far from being on the decline. Clogate Maroon...
...images to show how far Mr. Sanborn's mistake can lead him. Out of justice to him I will quote the best image, an emotional image, if I may use the term. He is telling how two persons in a store talking in their alien English tongue feel themselves apart from the French crowd around them, and in a way above them, "Like a child's vague dream of principality." This is not studied; it is natural, effective. But unfortunately it stands in comparative solitude...