Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...annual expenses, to take its due part occasionally in exploration and excavation, and to publish the results of its work. While the older French and German schools at Athens have been maintained for many years by the liberality of the two governments which founded them, we are proud to feel that we have a never-failing source of beneficence, richer and wiser in its liberality than any public treasury, to which we can turn with confidence. The willingness and even eagerness of our men of wealth to take the place which ancient governments fill in Europe as patrons of learning...
...managers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens feel that the time has come when they can confidently appeal to all friends of sound learning in the United States for the means of placing that institution on a solid and permanent foundation...
...Songs of Harvard" is the work of the compilers of that book, and they are responsible for whatever inaccuracies in arrangement or in typography the song may now exhibit. When we state that the compiling and publishing of "Songs of Harvard" was the work of a single month, we feel sure of the indulgence of the public towards the few mistakes of this sort which the book may contain - mistakes which are well-nigh unavoidable, even where the work of compilation is performed under the most favorable circumstances of time and place...
...hardly need be said that "Songs of Harvard" will be subjected to a most thorough revision, and that all future editions of the work will be freed, so far as is possible, from the mistakes which its publishers now feel to be its only blemishes...
...curious thing that proud as is our boast of the advance of America beyond the old world in the solution of the public questions of the times and in practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this...