Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...vote of the Seniors, of the whole University, or of the graduates, I predict that each of these bodies will declare with practical unanimity against the total abolition of the scrimmage. Even if fastidiousness is not encouraged too much at Harvard today, I think most of us feel that the display of wholesome sentiment is encouraged too little. The Corporation, I am sure, will not use their authority to ride rough-shod over the wishes of the vast majority of those most concerned in this matter. They will not destroy that which we regard as an institution, without having previously...
...scores instead of a good-natured scramble; fourth, because with any form of scrimmage, even such as we proposed with every day clothes on and with lowered flowers, there would necessarily be roughness on account of the present large numbers in the class; and last, because they feel that such an exercise is inappropriate for cultivated gentlemen and for a Harvard Class...
...answer to the editorial in the CRIMSON this morning, we feel warranted in saying that they have rather mistaken our meaning. The Senior Dance is the point upon which will turn the two days scheme, which the committee personally approve and believe the class favors. If the class favors the dance the exercises must necessarily last two days. The principal objection to it seems to be that of expense. Carefu estimates have shown that $2 for each person would fully cover the expenses. The tickets would be necessarily limited, averaging only three to each Senior...
...private rights. It is better for the college as a whole that there should be an infirmary. Moreover, the thought that fellow students are sick and in suffering, and lack the necessary comforts and treatment should be intolerable to every college man. For those men who do not feel the bonds and obligations of a common life and common fellowship in a seat of learning the gates are closed on the fulness and largeness of life...
...reserving seats for members of the University at the Sunday evening services in Appleton Chapel, which are "open to the public," is at once an answer to the question and an example of a successful plan of reserving seats for students most of whom, unlike Cambridge citizens, do not feel that they have the time to go to lectures half an hour early and waste the time between their arrival and the beginning of the lectures for the sake of securing from outsiders seats at exercises intended primarily for themselves...