Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There has been some inquiry lately among the directors of the Harvard Dining Association to ascertain the sentiment in regard to any further extension of the hotel system. There was a very general expression of opinion in opposition to any extension. We understand that the corporation may petition to be allowed to convert five more club tables into general tables. It is this proposition that has met with such general opposition, mainly, it seems, on account of a feeling that if five more general tables were added this year, that would mean a few more next year...
...Closer commercial relations would not follow intervention for the sake of trade. (a) Trade does not follow sentiment...
...Symphony Concert last night, had attached to it a sentiment which served to heighten in no small degree, the pleasure which its own beauty would have given. Mr. Nikisch chose the evening's music with the special idea of making it a memorial to Mr. Lowell, and no better choice could have been made, to bring back to mind the variety of gift and emotion which characterized his nature. The Symphonies, especially Beethoven's, are eminently human in quality, and it is due to just this fact, that they inspire so much feeling in people. There was an evident fitness...
Yesterday the captain of the senior class crew dismissed two of his men for breaking training. If these two men could realize the light in which their class and the college now regard them, their natural sentiment of shame for their dishonorable action would have united to it a feeling of dismay at learning how utterly they have lost the respect of their fellows...
...education their ratification by the Harvard Faculty shows them to have some bearing on the question of collegiate education. At the Convention of the Association held in Cambridge last fall, President Eliot was an enthusiastic promoter of most of changes which the Association finally voted to suggest. The general sentiment of the convention was that a great deal of time was wasted in the grammar schools over subjects of a more elementary nature, and that the taking up of certain other subjects was put off too long. As a result of the suggestions, then, if they are followed, the time...