Word: feels
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Whenever the college man is attacked on intellectual grounds his policy should undoubtedly be to admit everything. In comparison with the professors and the cultivated magazine writers who pen the indictments he can only feel his youth and lack of wisdom. Any proposal, therefore, for the elimination of "snaps", for the increasing of work required within reasonable limits merits his approval. But proposals for a return to greater prescription encounter difficulties. What studies are "cultural"? All critics admit that the word culture is vague. Shall Greek or European history be prescribed? The philosopher doubtless believes that philosophy is at least...
...academic occasion that could by any possibility be retained has been suffered to go by the board. The Sorbonne-Harvard exchange has gone on as usual; two Harvard professors have made the rounds of the provincial universities, and incredible as it may seem, the visitors have been made to feel that their hosts were really glad to see them and anxious to hear what they had to say. And there are few Harvard men who would not feel a real thrill of pride could they realize how deeply the French care for the good opinion and sympathy of this University...
...pacifists feel intensely the horrors of war, not only in our won land, but throughout the world. They regard it rightly as one of the greatest scourges of mankind--one of the darkest blots on our civilization. They have formed innumerable societies to abolish it; and large sums of money have been given to aid their work. But they give the impression of seeing the end more clearly than the means, and appear to think that war can be forever drowned out by a flood of talk, that the pen can grind the sword into a plowshare. Some pacifists speak...
...considered at this meeting, so that a large attendance is desired. The results of the work of the association in reaching 800 men in the University who are interested in agricultural work has been so satisfactory during the four months since the founding of the organization that the graduates feel justified in making it permanent. The order of business to come before the meeting will therefore be as follows: the selection of a name for the association; consideration of the desirability of affiliation with similar organizations with other colleges; discussion of the proposed plan of summer meetings; fixation...
...Living in the capital of the British Empire, within a few hours of the main battlefield, the members of this club are profoundly moved by the sight of the wastage and wreck of war, and feel it their duty to carry out the traditions of wide and intelligent humane help so long taught in the University...