Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...growth of sentiment is away from declamation which perhaps once flourished in the University, and toward debate. This is shown by the fact that the Boylston Prize contests which used to pack Sanders Theatre now gather hardly a handful. The intercollegiate debates on the contrary are better attended and attract more interest each year. The College offers no opportunity for training in declamation while there has been a substantial growth in the instruction given in debate. English 6 has increased in numbers and English 30 has been added; English 10 looks toward debate rather than declamation...
There was some discussion of limiting eligibility to teams to undergraduates but the sentiment was strongly against...
With this support behind them, the undergraduate members of the Athletic Union made a vigorous stand for a crew. The sentiment of the majority of the Union finally became so strong for the crew that three prominent graduate officers of the Union who had been very much opposed to having a crew handed in their resignations. Their resignations were accepted and it was then unanimously voted to have a crew...
...cowardice. The men most eminently fitted for hazing was the "thug." Of course, there were many very admirable men that took part in hazing, but they were carried along by public opinion. It is to athletics, principally, that is due the credit for the newer and manlier public sentiment...
...strenuous plea is made in behalf of sentiment. That is all very well in itself. We all want to keep up the sentiments and traditions of Harvard as far as possible. But where a traditional practice is harmful, sentiment must yield. Human slavery was once a time-honored custom; but an enlightened generation abolished it. Hazing in American colleges was once a time honored custom; but, of late, it has been almost completely suppressed. So the argument for sentiment amounts to nothing if it can be shown that the custom is a bad one. Nor is it any argument...