Word: felted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale track meet which will be held on Soldiers Field in July. Since the steel girders and other materials to be used will be factory-made, it should not take much time to assemble the structure. If an earlier start should be necessary, it is felt that the work can be undertaken without interfering with the track meet...
...those subjects, e.g. torts and criminal law; which it is felt are peculiarly unsuited to casebook instruction it is possible to formulate very specific adverse criticisms: 1. that the material is placed before the student in a form at once fragmentary and incoherent. 2. that the books are necessarily choked with irrelevant matter which overwhelms the learner and, so far from stimulating his mental processes, deadens them. 3. that the knowledge imparted is often startling in its superficiality and precarious by reason of its want of foundation...
...first time last fall, when 50 or 60 members of the various representative organizations gathered at Cedar Hill for a week-end discussion of practical problems that arose within the University. It was this conference that ultimately led to the sweeping reorganization of the Brooks House, that is felt in the present new move...
Monica, well bred, was exceedingly cordial to Hester; but Hester was rude with harum-scarum honesty. She swept Clive off to her world of modernistic furniture, and noisy banter, while Monica quietly retired from London to the country. Then Hester, disturbed by the misery she felt in Clive, in Monica, could not leave well enough alone; followed her mother-in-law, and by malicious coincidence found an old lover among Monica's new friends. Monica, quick to recognize the situation, flared into unaccustomed wrath, disrupting the close understanding between Clive and his wife. Only by the deftest handling...
...National Union of Schoolmasters. As had been expected they flaunted their masculinity with loud pride. The Schoolmasters Union is the male offspring of the National Union of Schoolteachers which once was composed of both male and female members. After the War the male members seceded because they felt that male teachers, in general, should receive higher wages than female. Since then, they have met once a year and usually said unpleasant things about female teachers. Last week, therefore, English women schoolteachers listened nervously for a scathing male pronunciamento. They heard several...