Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...willing to do this he has no business on the team, either as a regular or a substitute, no matter how valuable he may be in his place. For many years athletics at Harvard languished for this very indifference to training. Now the college sentiment demands a strict enforcement of the rules. It is an imposition for a few players themselves to oppose it. The next two weeks require a man to be in his best possible physical condition and the University expects a stricter obedience...
...highest purpose of such an organization as the Glee Club is to express the peculiar spirit which is found only in college men and when the organization gets itself down to a formal concert basis it fails to accomplish that purpose. Of course this is more a matter of sentiment than of practical utility but sentiment is about half of our life here and legitimately so. Can we not have a little more of the old time "singing in the yard...
...together and pay our tribute to those older sons of Harvard. To honor their memory, to feel again their enthusiasm, and to catch if possible some of their high, heroic spirit of self-sacrifice, the college held last year a simple service on Memorial Day in Sanders Theatre. The sentiment of that occasion left no doubt as to the question of continuing the custom; and therefore a like service will be held this year. Invitations have been sent to those graduates who served in the war, to join us under. graduates in this Harvard tribute. There will be music...
...individual instincts as well as his respect for the reputation of Harvard ought to make him condemn. The most important games of the season are still to come and they are the very occasions when this sort of a spirit is apt to crop out, if at all, College sentiment should revolt against this abuse in every possible way. If the few will disregard all sense of the fitness of things let the university as a whole look to her past reputation and justify itself in the eyes of the public by making every endeavor to discourage so uncharacteristic...
...attempts have failed; this is a last effort. Since it leaves the details of the hall entirely to the discretion of the Corporation, it is reasonable to suppose that something definite will be done. The one thing necessary is to convince the Corporation by a strong expression of student sentiment that we are intensely sincere in this matter...