Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...interest in tangible form. The idea of celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Harvard is a novel one and one which furnishes many possibilities for unique and effective ceremonies. We know that undergraduates will join heartily in any celebration which is arranged, but we feel that they should be willing to co-operate with the officers of the Memorial Society this spring by making suggestions which are so eagerly solicited...
...Social Service Committee, or perhaps some other Phillips Brooks House organization, would take it upon themselves to make a furniture collection the last of June and either manage its distribution in the fall or turn it over to the University loan collection, we feel sure that many men would prefer to give their furniture to such a committee and forego the absurdly low prices which the professional dealers offer. Without attempting to work out the details of the plan, we do think that it is a practical suggestion, and one which if carried out would materially aid the poorer students...
...this to be fatal to originality, we must consider the exact meaning of the term. We should regard a work of art original when it produces an impression of a living source. What really shows art is intensity of imagination on the part of the poet, which makes us feel upon opening the book that we are in a different world and that we have a live interest in the people and affairs of that world. This has been attained by many writers at various times, but it is prevalent in the Iliad through all the ordinary acts of life...
...consider the meaning of these lines, so familiar to every Harvard man, we must admit their inappropriateness in nine cases out of ten. But it is one thing to criticise and another to construct. If new words were to be written, as the writer of the communication suggests, we feel that they should only be officially adopted after the most careful scrutiny into their lasting worth. Surely no harm would be done, however, if the proper authorities were to invite the graduates and undergraduates to submit new words to our time-honored music, and a justified change might result...
There are still a large number of Seniors who have as yet made no subscriptions to the Class Fund. Every man in the class should feel it his duty to give his proper share toward thus maintaining and increasing the future life and usefulness of the class. In order to have a vigorous class life in future years, it is absolutely essential to have a large fund...