Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...piece crudely. Many Ibsen plays have been given in Manhattan these past seasons; probably few better than this Enemy of the People. The play tells the story of a Norwegian doctor who found that the baths in his town were unsanitary and struggled desperately with the citizens, who felt it better for their individual bank account to let the germs flourish...
...School, hired an office in Central Square and waited. Clients flocked to the office, but unfortunately they did not bring the legal problems for which he had hoped. Instead of wage disputes, and landlord and tenant cases, the clients wished advice concerning their marital obligations and disputes. He felt that the social agencies were better equipped to handle this sort of case than were students of the Law School, and after about two years the experiment was given...
...change of subject followed a conference with the Symphony Hall management, who felt that the subject originally chosen. "Resolved, That the fetish of efficiency is a deplorable feature of modern life," was not so well suited to an international debate as the subject dealing with pacifism, according to D. E. Scoll '28, Debate Manager...
...vicinity of the London Stock Exchange, prowled a pickpocket. Soon he espied an old gentleman, walking solo. "Easy money," he grinned and sidled up behind. Then, drawing up abreast, his nimble fingers felt for the oldster's watch. Instanter a bony fist hit him a resounding thwack on the jaw and he went reeling into the roadway...
Harvard has already been fortunate in having a great number of distinguished foreign members. They have come here unusually for one purpose-to study, and they have been allowed to go their own way in the normal manner of the average undergraduate. Some, perhaps, have felt a coldness in the traditional Cambridge absence of attention, but the majority have a probably been rather grateful for an atmosphere which minimizes curiosity and accepts one and all in the same spirit of cosmopolitanism. The foreign student wishes to step out of the tourist role, to lose his consciousness of nationality, to observe...