Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...MacVeagh believes with O. Henry that a dream is a vehicle for literary effect which is always convenient, conventional and unassailable. In this way he launches a spirited attack on Mr. Wilson, the Peace Conference, and all who feel like letting the Germans down lightly, in a way that would delight an Old Guard Republican. He leaves no doubt in the mind of the reader as to his political leanings...
...While we feel that the structure of American society is too sound to crumble like that of Russia and that Mr. Gompers was exaggerating to carry a point, nevertheless we believe national prohibition will involve grave economic consequences. According to the labor leaders of St. Louis, twenty-five thousand men in that city alone will be thrown out of work. Throughout the Middle West, in Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin, the same story can be told; thousands of men trained to a certain trade suddenly thrown on the mercy of the country. No handicraft during the period of the industrial Revolution...
This type of summer work has been dictated for the most part by the impulse to see and feel the great facts of life in their largest, roughest, and most elemental form, and to broaden in view-point accordingly, which was aroused but not satisfied for them in time of war. The jobs they have selected are those which involve heavy manual work, among men who work honestly from day to day with their hands, and see things from the laboring man's point of view...
...Senate by Mr. Borah, the same man who refused the President's invitation to an informal conference at the dinner table about the League of Nations, an occasion attended by all his colleagues. Doubtless by both of these discourteous actions he has gained political notoriety. But we feel certain that the bulk of Americans, Republicans and Democrats, respecting the dignity and unity of purpose of the nation, will repudiate his policy and will regret that the Senate has accepted from him a document of such doubtful origin...
...system of Senior advisers, then, undoubtedly fills a need which otherwise cannot be met. It is the duty of the Senior to make the incoming man feel that he has a friend in the University with whom he can talk over the perplexing incidents of the new life to which he is becoming accustomed. The experience of the upperclassman is sure to prove invaluable in gulling the uninitiated toward a wise course in studies and other college activities...