Word: felt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Plautus introduced many innovations, especially in metre and in musical accompaniment. The character of the parasite, if not his invention, was certainly elaborated by him. The great proof of Plautus's originality was his popularity. The influence of one poet upon another is always deeply felt, and so the process of transmission from the Greek to the Roman, must not be regarded as imitation, but as continuation...
...Hall or Common Rooms to help bridge the distance between teachers and pupils, and to be in some sort the center of the social life of the University. With such Common Rooms, and the hospitable gatherings in them, he had been familiar at Oxford, and so doubtless felt their want keenly; but though he desired them keenly; but though he desired them earnestly for Harvard, he cannot have desired them half so earnestly as she does herself. Fortunately she has not to wait for them, as Mr. Hill seemed to anticipate, till the rise of "some generous and wealthy benefactor...
...that it gives for the first time to instructors and students a common meeting place where official dignity and the distant deference due to it may both be set aside; where the young man may meet the older as a friend and profit by influences which are not felt in the lecture room; and where the perfect harmony of view may be established which will raise the standards of this University as nothing else can raise them. Many other good services to Harvard Phillips Brooks House will surely do, but none greater than this, and none which is more needed...
...long felt want is being supplied in the erection of the Casino, which is to be used for dances, tennis courts and the performances of the Dramatic Association. The building will be erected by the students on a site which was given them by the trustees. An attempt has been made to secure military drill in the college, and a committee has been appointed to ask the government for an officer and the necessary supplies...
Considerable excitement is felt at Williams on account of the arrest of a few students for taking part in a forbidden parade on St. Patrick...