Word: felt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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FROM our fancied acquaintance with College matters, we have scarcely felt the important changes that have been going on during the last few years. It has been said, "experiments never go backward." As far as Harvard is concerned, few of the recent reforms have failed, hardly one having been abandoned. The substitution of the long vacation for several shorter and more rational ones, the perfecting of the elective system, with permission to anticipate the required studies, the privileges afforded to the Seniors of next year, - the last and most radical change, - these are the most popular, if not the most...
...motive only for abstaining is brought into play. It is assumed that even the most degraded, whose name has once been signed to a promise, will hesitate before he breaks that promise. Now in the majority of cases it is probable that but little compunction of conscience is felt by such men, when they fail to keep their word. What is needed is first to raise them up so that they may have a due respect for the promise. And when, either through religious excitement, interest in business, or separation from vulgar scenes, they once reach this point, no longer...
...there is to be a prize offered for another similar race, it seems but just for England to consent to a contest in American waters. She may be assured of every courtesy and advantage at our hands, and whatever the result, no dissatisfaction could be felt. In such an event we should in all probability send our best material; if England sends a second-rate crew, she does it at her peril...
...behind and above the pulpit, and the dark drapery festooned along the galleries and caught up alternately by boughs of evergreen and by calla-lilies, gave to the whole Chapel an air of mourning, and yet of hopeful and of almost triumphant mourning, which every one there must have felt to be most appropriate. The form of service used at King's Chapel - the one which Agassiz himself preferred, we believe - was read by the Rev. Dr. Peabody. The singing, under the direction of Mr. Paine, was by the Glee Club; they sang, and very impressively, Cherubini's Pie Jesu...
Education itself has not escaped this inevitable law of centralization. For centuries schools and colleges have existed in France. Indeed, previous to the year 1789 there were already some twenty-one or twenty-two universities. The Revolution came, and with it a great upheaval in the social world. People felt that they were about to leave behind the old established state of things to enter upon a life under entirely new conditions, and that for this new state of society new methods were essential...