Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Though President Eliot has not been in close touch with the students; though his opinions and actions have often not been in accord with undergaduate sentiment or judgment; no member of the University can fail to feel gratitude toward him for the position he has so well helped Harvard to maintain. This gratitude would find its suitable expression on an occasion like the coming anniversary. What form such an expression should take, we do not suggest. The idea should come, as it doubtless will, from the students themselves...
...feel sure that the great number who have to go this way will endorse this plea for an improvement...
...have class feeling broken down is, in some ways, a good thing. A university spirit is rather to be cultivated than a class spirit has been so lusty and pugnacious that it was, at best, only an irresponsible boyishness. And yet we believe that the total abolition of the class spirit would be bad. A normal class spirit helps, rather than hinders, a university spirit. If a student's loyalty is to be real, and not sentimental, it must be for that which is really closely connected with his life. Now the freshman, for example, more readily becomes loyal...
...thoroughly refreshing to have features of ancient life which have hitherto had all the dryness of text-books about them, quickened into real significance for us. Interest in the play will by no means be confined to classical scholars. A very large proportion of the students will feel themselves indebted to the men who have unreservedly spent their time and labor to make the affair successful...
...sons of God, and God has put his spirit in them. First, Paul as the theologian tells us that we have this spirit because we have come to know God, that the more we learn, the better we know how to appreciate Him. He then seems to feel that there is something more, that back of all this knowledge or ignorance there is a fund of experience-a universal recogni...