Word: feelings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...backstairs variety. It is called "Thirty Years of Harvard Aesthetes" and is by Dorian Abbott '15. It is an account of the exotic at Harvard, both past and present. Some of the characters are easily recognizable. "Cigarette" is obviously Alan Seeger, and if I did not feel for the war-time purse of the CRIMSON in defending libel suits, I could catalogue a rather distinguished array of aesthetes referred to. The moral attitude of the writer is clear: he frowns upon gin-drinking and purple lights, and sneers at aesthetes who use cologne and wear fillets...
...news from Europe causes us to rejoice. But at the same time it makes us thoughtful. We feel the seriousness of the coming months. We know that the good of the nation will demand even greater moral and mental strength than was demanded by the war. To keep the world safe, to substitute better ideals for those that are outworn, to protect the weak, to direct the powerful, to build social machinery that will serve all classes and all nations without injustices--here are some of the tasks confronting us. Boston Traveler...
...interesting to talk to the German wounded prisoners of whom I have had quite a number. They all feel that the war is over and they seem very glad of it. They realize how much they have been deceived by their superiors regarding the fighting strength of the Americans...
...makes one very bitter against the military organization of Germany which is responsible for it all. There is no question that the leaders should receive individual punishments for their crimes and every town in Germany should be made to pay for the restoration of a French town. We all feel that nothing short of this will satisfy the French, who have suffered so much more than we have...
...reckon with a quite variable and therefore indeterminable quantity, namely, human nature. Will the average student study more and better under pressure of compulsion or of his own accord? In wartime, perhaps, no chance could be taken as to the probable outcome of this arrangement; the students should feel it their duty to study and officers should be put over them to assist them in every practical way in doing so. Yet in time of peace, with the supreme necessity of persistent application largely removed, it is at least open to question whether students profit more from the pursuit...