Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...classics. It is very pleasant and profitable for us that the beauties of Chaucer should be held up for our admiration. But this is not enough. We miss the accustomed classical readings which have been given us in past years, and lift up our voices in remonstrance. We cannot feel satisfied to allow one of the most beneficial and practical applications of our classical knowledge to pass into disuse. No method is equal to that of the classical readings offered us in past years in acquiring a practical acquaintance with the various authors who are not read in the elective...
...very near us, and numbers among its citizens some of the leading authorities in economical matters in this country, as, for example, Gen. Francis A. Walker, Mr. Atkinson and Mr. Bradford. If any one of these gentlemen could be induced to deliver one or more lectures at Harvard, we feel sure that there would be deep gratitude felt on the part of the students...
...paper alive without the interested and enthusiastic support of the students. Other smaller colleges support as many, or more papers, which are of an inferior merit, than Harvard. The success which is vouchsafed to many of our contemporaries surely is not deserved by their merit. But the smaller colleges feel a just pride in their college publications, and lend them a support which is as unknown at Harvard as our publications are needy. If we cannot keep the field of sports against all comers or carry the pennant victoriously down the river, let us, by all that we esteem worthy...
...virtue of its native strength and energy, to any of the things presented to it by the intellect, before any of these things has power to draw or coerce it at all,-then is the will free and answerable for its choice: then may we understand why we should feel guilty when we fall and grateful when we are saved...
...suspicious, the reader will look over the book again, and lo ! on page 106, the young lady playing tennis will be seen to have been deliberately copied, line for line, from last year's " Liber Brunensis." One would think that Yale men, after their last year's experience, would feel particularly sensitive about a case of this kind, especially as it will surely detract from the merits of their book, which is in other respects, unique, handsome, and interesting...