Word: feels
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...University well, may do what he wills to outsiders. He is under obligation to respect the rights of all, but we are free to say that we think that his obligation becomes greater, the closer he is connected with others. Certainly this principle is recognized everywhere, and all feel instinctively that they have an obligation of a different kind toward members of the University than toward outsiders. To say that one thing is to be recognized as worse than another, is not to say that the second is blameless...
DEAR SIRS:- I feel reluctant to enter upon the hopeless task of correcting misstatement in the newspapers regarding the affairs of Harvard College; but, as names were mentioned in this morning's Herald, in the account of an invasion of the room of a private tutor, by Professor Lyon and myself, it seems best to say that the whole story is false from beginning to end, No such arbitrary step has been taken for the apprehension of what the Faculty has, indeed, characterized as an objectionable method of tutoring, and no such step is contemplated...
...class that there are a certain number of seniors who do not favor the regulations which we have announced will govern the sale of Class Day tickets. They say that the class has not voted on this plan and as they personally do not like it they feel no obligation to fulfil the conditions. Moreover, we hear that these same men are openly promising to sell their tickets to others...
Every one, however, must feel that the devotion of the crew to their work this spring is wonderful. The work is hard and taxing; it has been kept up with scarcely a day's intermission month on month; the crew, moreover, started in with, as it were, a tradition of defeat, its own chances were made light of, and its practice has brought out much criticism, some of which has not been considerate...
...Therefore today we, the elders, call upon you, our successors, to share with us in the emotions which the undimmed memories of the war wake in our hearts. We appeal to you with your quick sympathies to feel a thrill of just exultation in recalling the example of your young predecessors, when opportunity, the last best gift of fortune, was given to Harvard students to show the temper of their souls, and to express in action the best lesson they had learned from the lips of our Alma Mater,- the lesson of self-devotion to the common good...