Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This is a great age, perhaps a monstrous age, perhaps a divine age, but surely to be admired, even by the most stupid. Nations go to war for purposes which they but dimly feel, led on by wisdom that is not their own, to an end that they may not see. Principalities and republics are stirred by the desire for revolution, though the result of the revolving is hidden. Surely in this unrest of the nations there is ground and seed for the harvest...
...natural for a young man, upon coming to Harvard from a strange land, to feel that he is an outsider, with few social interests in common with the native students. Unless such an attitude is checked at the start the foreigner will drift along through his college career without ever realizing an important phase of Harvard...
...reception at Phillips Brooks House tonight is the earnest effort of a number of Harvard men to get in touch with each foreign student in the University, in order to make him feel the spirit of fellowship that is Harvard, and to show him that we want his personal cooperation in our social life...
...regular Monday evening meetings held in the Smith Hall Common Room by Professor Bliss Perry. "I am sorry," he said, "for those who go through this college and never discover what Harvard University is, but not sorry for that fellow who comes here from far off, and feels out of place and awkward, but who does the real thinking, dreams the dreams which have changed the face of the whole world." He said he was sorry for the "spoon fed" fellow who has been "tucked into bed by his intellectual friends" and enjoyed the society of a boarding school. They...
...feel that for some legitimate reason they cannot carry either of the full courses of Military Science may take simply the three hours of drill a week, the Regimental Adjutant announced today, provided that they secure the permission of the Military Office before doing so. This drill alone will not, of course, count towards a degree. Those who wish to take advantage of this new ruling should register at once at Military Headquarters in the basement of University Hall...