Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...gridiron and the rollicking snake dance" are spoken of as if such exuberance were obviously unsportsmanlike, as if there were something mean in thus "rubbing it in." On the contrary, it is a legitimate effervescence of the joy of victory. The defeated not only expect it, but they feel disappointed if the subtle compliment be omitted. "Is the query. Doubtless more than one Harvard undergraduate,-- and at least one,--was obliged to apologise to his companion last Saturday when the expected serpentine failed to materialize...
...which players may be disqualified. The facts of the case admit no doubt that the men who resigned were completely innocent of any real professionalism in spirit, and only ignorance of a technicality led them to the disqualifying act. It is no exaggeration to say that all Harvard men feel the deepest regret at the incident. Whether the University teams win or lose, it is the desire of all sportsmen that they meet opponents who have not lost a part of their strength,--especially through such a stroke of chance as this...
...investigate, upon request, the work of men in this field, with a view to determining their increased efficiency as teachers, in recommending them for positions, comes as an admission of the thoroughness of their work. It should prove an added inducement to men entering this field. They can now feel that they are adding to their own value as teachers, in addition to their services to the community...
Students keenly feel, however, the lack of an ample and accessible collection of daily papers. Only four are kept, in ponderous files, in the periodical room. The general student of affairs and events, as well as the student of economics, government, and history profits enormously by reading representative newspapers from all parts of the country, and, if possible, of the world. They form a laboratory of research into the stream of contemporary life. Moreover, a generous collection of newspapers, the current editions of which were placed upon convenient racks, in an accessible room, would encourage the study of affairs...
...protest against the elective system which is now so familiar to us. "Universities were invented," says the author of this article, "for the sake of bringing their fortunate students into contact with the precious lore of the world, there garnered and kept pure." Nowadays, "if a boy does not feel a pre-established harmony between his soul and the humanities, then give him an academic degree on something with which his soul will be in pre-established harmony. And if there is no pre-established harmony between his soul and any form of learning, then create institutions that will give...