Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...noted and most worthy graduates. He was a man of whom Harvard is proud, and whose zeal for the welfare of the university was always our delight. We are all impressed with his character and his works, and while we regret that his long life should have ended, we feel that he accomplished the full measure of a great...
...asked for the first time to cut off a part of its best education to regain time which has been worse than wasted in the lower schools, while there is no hint of any attempt to strike at the real cause of our delays in education. We feel, indeed, that the consequences of the proposed step would be so momentous to the welfare of this and other colleges, and to the whole community, that it ought not to be taken without the hearty and almost unanimous concurrence of all the boards which have the fate of Harvard College in their...
...conveyed by this term is not that we should sit down and spend our time in idle gossip over our "prospects"; it does not mean that we should grind our teeth and declare ourselves beaten from the start; nor does it mean that we should smile blandly because we feel sure of a victory before the teams have met. It means that we should go to work and stay at work and not leave a stone unturned up to the moment of the contest. Theories are at best merely in the air; it is hard work which is the whole...
...college proper of the University begins work again today, feeling, for the most part, that there is no good reason why anything should be done until Monday, and perfectly sure that whatever may be accomplished this morning is not commensurate with two whole days at home. The moral lesson which the faculty has striven to impress upon the undergraduates by this forced early return will, we hope, be duly effective. At any rate, everyone will register this morning, and as the seniors date their cards with the new year, they will feel the full force of the fact that only...
...Huntington said: The finest scholars, after taking a few steps in the course of their researches, always find themselves confronted by an impassible wall. They reach the end of human knowledge and feel the littleness of it. In such cases it is necessary to look higher, to have faith in the infinite wisdom...