Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...must be wrong, and therefore all must be excluded. The rule has been, rather, that all should be given the use of the University buildings, in order to allow free play of opinion and contact of antagonistic ideas; all this to further Harvard's unending search after Truth. The sentiment has been that of tolerance: not the suppression of free discussion, but the promotion...
...mountain, of all the pomp and prodigality of heaven and earth. From time to time he calls his pupils to the window, and makes them see what, without the finer intuition of his eyes, they had never seen; makes them feel what, without the sympathy of his more penetrating sentiment, they had never felt. It seems the revelation of a new heaven and new earth, and to contain in itself its own justification. Then suddenly recollecting his duty, he shuts the window, calls them back to their tasks, and is equally well pleased and more discursive in enforcing on them...
There is a sentiment, wide-spread among both past and present members of the University, that the existing system of awarding scholarships is not satisfactory. An effort will be made next year to inquire more diligently into the needs of applicants, and this reform is plainly right. Far more important reforms are, however, needed. The system, as it is established, is on the whole well executed; sober complaint is made not against the execution of the system but rather against the system itself...
...judged by their laws. If the laws of a nation are improving, it follows that the people are, as a whole, becoming more intelligent. As in everything else the minister must help here to turn public opinion into the right channels. A minister can not preach mere sentiment on matters of law, but to talk reasonably and to influence his congregation in the right way, he must understand thoroughly such points as are likely to arise. It is sometimes said that ministers should not concern themselves with the laws of this world but should rather seek to teach the people...
...University will unite in the sentiment expressed by Mr. Irving that yesterday will long be memorable. The double opportunity in a single day of contact with the noblest man and the first genius of the stage is likely never to be given again. Delightful and inspiring were the words Mr. Irving was so kind as to use in regard to the day's events, and delightful and inspiring they certainly were...