Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year, it is simply a question of a very short time when the first Winter Meeting will have to be dropped from the list of college events. There has been a steady decrease in the interest in boxing and wrestling during the past seven or eight years. Apparently college sentiment is turning against them; and yet if they are worth having at all, they ought to be made a success. The committee has done all in its power. It has as a last attempt announced that the entries will be kept open for several days We earnestly urge everyone...
...Union, are to become the charter members of the new society. We have stated before that the proposed reform was one which will work eventually, if not immediately, for the interests of public speaking at Harvard. We still feel that in saying this we are expressing the sentiment of the college at large, in spite of the criticism of a certain speaker at the last meeting of the Union. We are aware that there is a certain body of men who have steadily opposed the scheme of reorganization. Naturally they do not agree with...
...record as opposed to the rule, but not because she was opposed to reform. She simply believes that, in the heat of enthusiasm, Yale was indiscreet in attempting to narrow her athletics down to a college basis; and this feeling is apparently strong even at Yale. With college sentiment expressed so strongly against the measure, it would seem dictatorial, at the least, to persist uncompromisingly in a plan so weakly backed...
...frontispiece is a portrait of the Bishop from a photograph by Pach taken recently in Cambridge. There have been better likenesses, but as the Harvard picture, sentiment makes it good. After the portrait there is printed in full the last sermon Dr. Brooks preached in Appleton chapel. One cannot read it without seeing the great man in the pulpit and feeling again the force of his rushing words on the "necessity of life" and "the glory of obedience." There is also a fac-simile of the last page of the same sermon with the date of its delivery...
...change of management of the CRIMSON in no way alters its policy. It will, as heretofore, aim to express editorially the best sentiment of the college in educational and athletic matters. This does not mean that the views of the writer will taken without investigation to be the views of the college. It will be our purpose to consult as fully and often as necessary those who are in a position to judge best of the bearings of certain question and then to draw our conclusions as conscientiously and with as good judgement as possible. In news items we shall...