Word: feeled
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...hope that our freshmen will feel that it is their duty not only to break the record in regard to playing the first game at New Have, but to prevent their ambitious rivals from perching on the far-famed fence for once in many years...
...tradesmen's' clubs which is out for practice on a Saturday evening that one or two of its members would be all the better for a little coaching, and ten to one, both those individuals themselves and the bulk of the crew, if not even its captain, will feel insulted at any such suggestion...
...arrogant, dictatorial way that cannot be commended. It tends to destroy their self-respect and to render them detain. The students should understand that it is not their business to supervise the morals or manners of professors, except in the class-room. If the professors are made to feel that they themselves are the arbiters of their own actions, and that they are looked upon by the students as gentlemen and scholars, a higher tone will soon begin to prevail among them. Acts of disorder-such as the "marking down"of students who prefer not to make accurate recitations...
...commencement exercises are concerned, we do not feel so strongly. It does not matter very much in what language the president tells us to come forward for our degrees, so long as we get those valuable pieces of parchment. We would suggest, however, that it would add much to the impressiveness of the occasion to have the pronunciation used a little more in accordance with that taught in the university, for the sake of consistency at least...
These changes cannot fail to increase the popularity of this department among students who feel that a systematic course of instruction in their own literature is absolutely necessary for every student of Harvard. Hither to the charge against our colleges has often been that they confine themselves to given lines of instruction, and that they never go beyond these lines. The largest acquaintance with the literature of their own times and own language that many work of the courses and from their daily newspaper and magazine reading. Thorough instruction in literature, treating the masterpieces of their languages as worthy...