Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Russian music. We have not recognized the substantial character of the common people of Russia or the economic importance of Russia to this country. I hope that some wealthy benefactor of Harvard will see fit to endow a chair of Russian economics in our School of Business Administration. I feel sure that freer intercourse between the two countries will be of advantage not only to Russia but to America
...Danube. Turkey is evidently under German control, and the armies are undoubtedly directed by German officers. Nevertheless, both Bulgaria and Turkey have respected American lives and interests; many of the leading Bulgarian statesmen and officers were educated at Roberts College, Constantinople, by American teachers, speak English, and feel that the United States is their friend. The Turks have shown a remarkable courtesy to American missionaries and institutions. Through all the vicissitudes of the war they have permitted Roberts College and the American College for Girls to keep up their work of civilization...
...case of a reduction in the age limit, colleges would probably suffer most of all. The student body would be composed largely of the unfit. We dislike the idea of such a contingency, for we feel that colleges are of vital importance to a country, especially in time of war. Here are developed many of those who will become national leaders, as well as military officers. But as Professor Johnston points out, the present time demands drastic action. If the Government needs men nineteen years of age, the colleges must make an additional sacrifice...
...most of us who have stayed at home, the burdens of a great war have rested easily. While others are offering life for a cause, the extent of our privations has been the absence of sugar from the breakfast cereal. An opportunity to feel this war, to aid in the alleviation of suffering that it entails should be a welcome one. Such an opportunity is at hand. Today the University is sending its contribution into Nova Scotia to clothe the victims of a disaster that has brought grief to thousands. That contribution must be worthy of the traditions of Harvard...
...Cross causes a great psychological effect on the soldiers going home for rest by furnishing large halls with beds and food and baths for them, and thereby making them feel as though someone cared for them...