Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quote from the preamble to the first guide, it was perpetrated because a group of CRIMSON editors felt "that in the past, discussion of the merits and defects of college courses had been altogether too meagre to be of any value either to instructors or prospective students." The CRIMSON did not pretend to present a categorical statement of the worth of the 40 odd courses it criticized, but rather the personal opinions of a fairly representative group of undergraduates. By soliciting the opinions of a much wider group, the CRIMSON hopes that its second guide will be of greater significance...
...human being. I did not propose to go deeply into the heart, as it is called-that organ, which is so frequently maligned, did not interest me." In this book Author Wilde also describes his entrance to London, "this huge heap of Philistinism," as a young man: "I felt like a goldfish who was choked from devouring too much bread. ... It seemed a foolish thing to go on living in such a world...
...felt like a goldfish choked with bread...
...erection of a twelve story hotel on this site. As this building would have been placed in the very center of the district between the group of College buildings in the Harvard Yard and the group along the Charles River the project aroused considerable opposition. Among those who felt this objection most strongly was Mr. Stillman, and under his direction the site of the Church and the rectory was purchased by Moodna Farms. During the past year the land has been held by this corporation. But in February, it has just been learned, the two parcels were deeded over...
However, Miss Repplier reminds the public that but fifty-seven years have passed since James Russell Lowell wrote "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners"; While much less time has elapsed since William James felt constrained to protest that "in the last analysis, the Yankee also is a creature of God." Styles may shift but, it is Miss Repplier's uncontentious contention, culture itself is not transplanted within half a century. Even if it be allowed that seeds of artistry have thriven somewhat in the western world, at least salt has not been strewn on the soil of Europe...