Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...following letter was received from the captain of the Cambridge Athletic Team, on the eve of the team's departure for Europe, and it is felt that the kindly sentiment therein expressed for the College and her representatives ought to be seen by all who took part in the hospitalities extended to our guests, and in fact by all Harvard men as evidencing the feelings of the Cambridge of the old world for the Cambridge of the new world...
...There the matter subsided and conservative sentiment among college men was rapidly becoming favorable to Yale's position, and to a suspension of the annual football game for one or two years, or until the ill feeling publicly created should have died out. Late in June the matter was reopened. The statements then made in the papers were substantially correct, that Harvard had held out the 'olive branch' by suggesting a dual league. This was not officially done, and it could not be spoken...
...sport. That in taking this ground Harvard was not actuated by any spirit of hostility, nor of retaliation. That Harvard men everywhere, and doubtless Yale men too, would greatly regret such an interruption of the athletic relations which had continued so many years unbroken, but that the sentiment of Harvard men was well night universal that no other course was open to them without a sacrifice of self respect. As one Harvard man put it, "If Mr. A. is unwilling to breakfast with Mr. B. it is hardly to be expected that Mr. B. will think it becoming...
There is something about such work as that of the Prospect Union, which has a peculiar attraction for men of college age and this, too, in a sense distinct from that glamour of false sentiment under which much "slum-work" is carried on. Any idea of condescension is entirely foreign to the spirit of the Prospect Union. It is an association of college students and wage-earners for mutual helpfulness and the benefit derived by the student is not a whit less, if it is not even greater, than that derived by the wage earner. A proof of this...
...Upon our common school system democracy stands. That the children of this republic receive the foundation of an education and gain the elements of a firm character is essential. Because the public schools are concerned with the rudiments of education and with children, the sentiment has sometimes gone abroad that any sensible average American can undertake the responsibility of our schools. The public schools have therefore in a few large cities fallen into the hands of politicians and the institution on which our public safety depends has become the football of political parties and ward room deals. In many...