Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editorials that I have noticed in recent numbers of the CRIMSON concerning the opening of the scientific laboratories for evening work have greatly impressed me as to their appropriateness. I have many times felt that some such action should be taken by the authorities in charge, and I feel certain that the men taking courses involving laboratory work will heartily second any effort in this direction...
...home when such harmful propaganda is sent through the air." Thus, half-incredulous, half-accusatory, the Open Letter appealed to the better natures, the higher selves, of Advisory Council members. It made particular reference to Owen D. Young (whose General Electric Co. it credited with controlling National Broadcasting), felt that Chairman Young could not knowingly permit the radio chain to aid in "undermining the interests of the American home and of honest business...
...reported that, as a child, he had varioloid measles, sore throat and "colds." When he was twelve he had struck his head upon a stone and gone unconscious for a short time. Then he walked home. Apparently there were no after results. But for years his scalp had felt tender. In adult life he had had typhoid, acute rheumatism, labyrinthine deafness, pneumonia five times, influenza, chronic laryngitis, chronic ulcer of nasal septum...
...some comment on the independent attitude always maintained by Harvard toward associations in intercollegiate sport. Perhaps the commonest interpretation put on this detachment has read into the Harvard athletic policy a disdain of such leagues. "Old high-hat Harvard" is the phrase most often used to describe what is felt to be an independence amounting to conscious self-righteousness...
...educational facilities of the University with a subject which is attracting the attention of scientists and laymen together; Harvard has passed up the chance, what can she be up to? The answer this time is of course that the bequest carried so many conditions that the corporation felt itself unable to shoulder the responsibility implied in acceptance...