Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...when the plumes of the knight adorned the cap that crowned the strongest knots of brawn, but that was an age coeval with bull-fights and duels. No person with refined sensibilities can look upon a modern game of foot-ball, with all its cruelly, and feel that it is in keeping with our civilization...
...great problem in our lives to find a fixed home in the universe. Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes says, "The world has a thousand roosts, but only one nest;" and it is this nest that we should strive for, this position in which we feel ourselves one with Nature and which is all satisfying. The "roosts" are numerous. Such are health, wealth, power, and knowledge, things which may or may not be good in themselves and which we grasp at, often to the exclusion of all else, and then find unsatisfactory. They are all partial, and death ends them...
...felt the strength of his personality and shared his kind and sympathetic nature. On class day at the exercises around the tree his name has called forth the loudest cheers; and these have come from classes who have not known him personally. With all this popularity, was combined a feeling of reverence. We looked up to him as one of the links which bound us to the past of Harvard and inspired us with love and loyalty. All, then, must feel this loss with inexpressible sorrow; but the memory of the man as teacher, pastor and friend will...
Everyone must feel the need of a new dining hall, especially if he has experienced the inconveniences of the present overcrowded condition of Memorial Hall. Should the proposed plan be carried into execution, provision would be made for the extra men now at the general tables in Memorial Hall, for the men now on the waiting list, and for the many others who live in Cambridge and desire to board at such an association as Memorial Hall, but are unable to do so at present on account of lack of accommodation. We urge all members of the University who would...
...world of old and yet we have the worldly man. In fact, not one of us is entirely free from worldliness. We are surrounded by men who have no better aim than to obtain riches for riches' sake, or power for power's sake, and we cannot but feel their influence. And still it is comforting to know that no man is entirely worldly. Every man has a noble ideal at some time in his life. We all realize, too, that that only is true living, which has for its aim the bettering of humanity...