Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Though President Eliot has not been in close touch with the students; though his opinions and actions have often not been in accord with undergaduate sentiment or judgment; no member of the University can fail to feel gratitude toward him for the position he has so well helped Harvard to maintain. This gratitude would find its suitable expression on an occasion like the coming anniversary. What form such an expression should take, we do not suggest. The idea should come, as it doubtless will, from the students themselves...
...first see the Umbrians in this rough, unpolished state, clinging to their provincial ideas of sentiment, but influenced more and more by the superior learning and technical skill of Florence. Piero Fanasca was a representative of this period. By his powerful use of outline in the human figure, for he was more of a draughts man than a painter, he helped in the formation of Raphael's style. Perigino, however, was the real forerunner of Raphael. His subjects are said to have bodies belonging to the Renaissance, but souls of the middle ages. His paintings are known for their grace...
...definite move has been made towards restoring the Trophy Room to its proper condition. We believe that there is a strong, though possibly latent, sentiment in the University about this, and that much regret is felt over the neglect. It is no trifling matter. The Trophy Room is by no means an unimportant institution. Few features of the University receive so much attention from visitors, and, during the summers especially, the number who enter there to look over Harvard's records is very large. One summer a record of the attendance was kept, and it was found that over four...
There is but one sentiment among Harvard men today. The sad accident of last week came like a shock to the whole University, and the days that followed were filled with anxious forebodings. Now that the last hope has gone, there is universal mourning both by the faculty and the students. Nothing is more tragic than that a life should be cut off just as it was growing into its full vigor, when the powers that had been gathering for a score of years were making ready for actual work in the life of the world, when all had promise...
...satisfies his ideas. Religious truth is unlike all other truths. A mathematical truth is proved by a set of fixed rules. Legal or historical truths are governed only by hearsay. Religious truth, however, is proved by intellect and reasoning. Its foundation is in its appeal to our sentiment of love. It springs from the best there is in us. Our hearts and souls, alone, can satisfy us of its truth...