Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems inclined to substitute class discussion for examinations. There is much to be said for this idea; it is about time that the principle of the witenagemot be introduced into the class-room. Relations between instructors and students should be cosier and more chatty. The human touch should be felt even in analytic chemistry and Romance philology. But with all the good will in the world we must point out that if there be class discussion, undergraduates must attend classes, and that will interfere very much with their more serious activities. But this is mere criticism. What will prove immensely...
...attempted to point out the fact that the Visitors Board was endowed with the widest possible powers, that they "were to guard over the trust in every way, to see that it should always be administratered in accord with the original Calvinist intent of the foundation." The Visitors felt, he explained, that this provision gave them power to prevent the union with the Harvard Divinity School which the trustees had arranged...
From another part of London, politically opposite to the great Strand newspaper, came a girlish outburst of indignation from Labor's only woman M. P., Ellen Wilkinson. She said that the women of the Labor Party "felt pretty sick when they read nonsense like that talked by Ethel Snowden in America and added that she would like to apply to Mrs. Snowden the epithet "The woman who wants slapping...
...issue of TIME the two paragraphs beginning at the bottom of col. 1, page 18 and concluding the article are as fine a description of a storm and its awful power over man as I have seen in many a day. My commendation will mean little but I felt that I must express myself and that it might interest you to know someone else appreciated a really imaginative attempt to do an age-old subject...
Unfortunately, the construction of the past few years has been performed unevenly throughout the country, and with different classes of buildings. Thus, in some sections, there is still a shortage in certain types of building, while in others there is an oversupply. In Washington, D. C, President Coolidge has felt it necessary to appoint a commission to fix rents. On the other hand, T. H. Green, former president of the Hotel Association fof New York City, has declared that more hotels are now being built than there is need for, and that this may bring on serious difficulties...