Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This belief led to the establishment, some fifteen years ago, of a field of concentration known as History and Literature. It was felt that one could scarcely comprehend the true significance of any period in the world's development merely by an examination of the important events of its history, of its constitutional development or of its foreign policy. One must also know what the people of that period thought, what they talked about, with what problems their intellects were busy. One could, it is true, write an extremely valuable and accurate history of Boston compiled wholly from the archives...
...Puritans who founded the Massachusetts colonies had gone, not only to Cambridge, but to Emmanuel College in particular. And having seen the evils of prescribed religious exercises, John Harvard omitted any such prescription in the bequest upon which Harvard College was founded. The alarm which many of the colonists felt at the thought of this "godless university" resulted in the foundation of Yale, intended to pour forth a stream of "untainted Calvinists". Since that time, according to a visiting Englishman of the nineteenth century, Yale men have always been horrified by the irreverence of Cambridge, while Harvard men inevitably regard...
...with his appointment as Director of Rowing in January 1922, however, that Dr. Howe's real services to the University began to be felt. In addition to personally coaching both the two University crews and the first Freshman eight, he took up the work of crew organization and is largely responsible for the present system of rowing...
...great plan is beginning to be felt. Arrived in Boston and showed my characteristic contempt for the established order in a well-spent evening scratching matches on all the front doors along Beacon Street. Most satisfactory...
...benefit of those members of the University who still cherish the ideals of its founder, who still believe that every man has the inviolable right to be seen as well as heard, and who have felt that the supporters of the glorious banner of freedom were flagging of late; we are glad to be able to print, bit by bit, as it comes to light the hitherto unpublished journal of a freeman, a pioneer of the proletariat, who has been sustaining single-handed for years a magnificent fight against the forces of repression. If the daring entries are fragmentary...