Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This year Thanksgiving Day will be a solemn time. We have been asked to make it a day of fasting rather than a day of feasting. With many of us this will be making a virtue of necessity; but few thoughtful people will feel disposed to make the day one of hilarity. This is a grim and gray time, like the month in which Thanksgiving Day occurs. The constant sense of the country being at war is a drain on the Nation's spiritual forces, and such an anniversary is a time to renew those forces from which a people...
...shoddy materials, the clerk is late to the office, the telephone or janitor service is poor "because of the war." It is such an excuse for slackness as slackness has not had in nearly two generations. Because a great burden is laid upon the nation, millions of people feel they can roll various private burdens off their shoulders by four words. The excuse often accentuates the fault. New York Evening Post
...cadets we give a real welcome. Many of them are already Harvard men; we hope the others will feel that they too belong to the University. We want to make their stay here as pleasant as we can; the College is at their disposal. We are their hosts; they are among the most welcome guests we have ever...
...could well do without. From money thus saved his subscription should be made. One fifty dollar bond, bought at a sacrifice, is worth more to the holder than many large ones bought with surplus cash. And every man who has not made this sacrifice for the government should feel troubled at reading the latest returns, for to him and to his kind the present undersubscription is directly...
...Fraternity sets an example to be followed by the social organizations. Yet a more representative expression of Harvard's support of the loan could be gained by transferring class treasury accounts into bonds. Those who have contributed to the funds and who are now unable to subscribe individually could feel that they had helped the cause. The transfer of class funds from a Cambridge bank to the U. S. treasury will cause little apprehension...