Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...convinced I voice a sentiment quite as prevalent at Harvard, and quite as justly so, as that in the letter I referred to in opening...
...must be borne in mind that the effort of the committee at present is not to create a sentiment in favor of the proposed club, except so far as the project commends itself. What they are trying to get at now is what the members of the University actually think of the plan. The latter has been well stated by a graduate interested in the movement in these words: "We aim simply at giving a definite amount of convenience for a definite annual sum; we don't dream of manufacturing sociability; but we believe that if eight hundred or more...
...University Club in Cambridge has been discussed by prominent graduates, and in view of the fact that no plan for a university club could be carred out unless more than a passive acquiesence in the scheme was manifested by the undergraduates, it is interesting to note the sentiment of the undergraduate body as it has been expressed by the presidents of the respective classes in the present issue of the Monthly. As far as can be judged by their messages, the undergraduate attitude toward the proposed university club is something like this: "If the club could be established in might...
...this section than in others is also shown by several cases which have come under my notice, where men in different divisions prepared their briefs together. Those in the particular division to which I refer, were marked E, while in other divisions practically the same work received C. The sentiment of the class certainly supports this statement...
...first thing needed in civil service reform is a general change of sentiment; more people must become interested in it and it must be more generally sought after by the general mass of the population. It is to promote this feeling that we have met here tonight...