Word: strains
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...fifteen minutes at a time? Or how many who have disliked to exercise their minds to that extent have talked to their Faculty Adviser upon the subject? Its very purpose would indicate that it may not be the simplest subject, but still it seems one that would not strain even a college man's mind to the breaking point...
Behind all the literary genius of James Russell Lowell, flashing forth at every opportunity lay the dominant strain of patriotism. The "Bigelow Papers" were the tools endowed him by nature, with which he most efficiently carried out his fixed purpose of supporting his country in her hours of need. True patriotism is lasting, universal. Lowell's works on this, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, inspire the same feeling that they did half a century ago. What could be more expressive of the emotions of millions of people in the United States today than his famous passage...
...Here was certainly a full and varied life, responsive to many personal moods and many tides of public feeling. Lowell drew intellectual stimulus from enormously wide reading in classical and modern literatures. Puritanically earnest by inheritance, he seems also to have inherited a strain of levity which he could not always control, and, through his mother's family, a dash of mysticism sometimes resembling second sight. His physical and mental powers were not always in the happiest mutual adjustment: he became easily the prey of moods and fancies, and knew the alternations from wild gaiety of spirits to black despair...
...trustees of the Boston Elevated Railway Company have announced their intention of doing away with odd-cent rates. We knew they couldn't keep it up. The strain of counting the pennies is too much especially now that the war is over...
...knowledge of Harvard as a seat of learning and also as a source of action. I have a strong feeling that, whereas in the past Harvard has gotten much inspiration from her older sisters at Oxford and Cambridge, in the future, and in the near nature, under the strain and stress of the construction which must take place after this War, the older sisters will have something to be the younger, an Harvard will be in a position to show the possibility of changing a seat of learning with the real lives of the people, to show that a great...