Word: feels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matter of training they feel that much has been accomplished by the adoption of Mr. Lathrop's ideas, and they hope to effect still further reforms by shortening the period of hard football work and by providing for a more gradual introduction to the active work. They recommend also the abandonment of the summer practice...
...striking fact about the character of Hamlet, as contrasted with most of Shakespeare's heroes is his reality, - his almost corporeal presence. He is as real to us as the people about us in our daily life, perhaps more real than many of them. We feel with absolute certainty that Hamlet lived, and that he died. There is perhaps no other character in Shakespeare, with the exception of Sir John Falstaff, whom we can not picture as being even now alive. But the death of Hamlet we feel as we do that of a friend...
...Ivan Tonjoroff contributes the explanation of "Why I Left the Army." In spite of paragraphs one sentence in length and sentences equally abbreviated we learn the reason without much excitement. The tale has a certain atmosphere of familiarity about it which makes the reader feel that he has been there before...
...runners on the avenue; yet this request has been so far unheeded that complaints at the office are still frequent. The men who are to blame for this are very seriously to blame. They show a harmful lack of consideration which is utterly inexcusable. No gentleman should feel himself at liberty to profit by neglecting a request with which his fellows whose interests are like his own comply, especially when his neglect is likely to endanger the priveleges of others...
...International Athletic Congress at Paris last summer, it was decided to hold athletic contests every four years, open to amateurs only, to be known as the Olympic Games. If some lovers of Pindar feel their teeth on edge at this name, as applied to bicycle races and lawn tennis tournaments, we Greeks are to a man delighted that the first of these meetings is to be held in Athens, by unanimous vote of the members of the aforesaid Congress. And doubtless there could be no fitter spot to inaugurate these contests, which will be of incalculable benefit to the cause...