Word: felt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps no one would contend that the entertainment provided at the Freshman smokers should be of a super-refined character, but I am sure that more than one man felt that the bounds of common decency were trespassed by a part of the entertainment of last Thursday evening. I refer to the performance of four negro comedians, who, responding to applause elicited by a selection somewhat more grotesque than such performers commonly use, appeared on the stage dressed in pseudo-military uniforms, carrying our national flag, and singing a song certainly not unpatriotic in sentiment but robbed of any patriotic...
...spring. This point was considered at one of the meetings when the plans for the first indoor meet were being drawn up, and it was decided then that the present non-scoring system would cause the smaller colleges to enter, and make the competition keener. It was also felt that it would be unfair to the coaches and track athletes to have them trained to their topnotch form in March and again in May. In consideration of this general feeling the committee will probably make no definite change in the scoring system at the present time...
...Putnam further declared that opinions must be expressed throughout the country, since otherwise the President and Congress could not know how the people, whose government they represent, felt. "The President has shown undue patience" in the recent war crises. Money has been distributed broadcast with dishonest intentions of blowing up government property, of destroying munition factories, in short, "a hot-bed of treacherous actions have been going on as ordered by enemies to the nation...
...intention of this committee that such aid as is necessary may be secured by each man unable to pay himself by applying at Harvard Regiment Headquarters. Expenses will amount to about $55 per man; and it is felt that this generous offer of help should encourage men who have given up the idea of going from financial reasons to change their minds and to accept the aid extended...
...past few years it has been the policy of the Sodality to give a Pop Concert at the Union during the winter, so that the students of the University may get in touch with the work that the orchestra has been doing. However, this season it was felt that more men would be reached, and certainly more of the faculty, if the concert were produced free of charge in the Paine Hall. In this way those not belonging to the Union might have the opportunity to hear the work of the Sodality...