Word: sentimentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent activities of the Undergraduate Council may confirm this. In recent years, ideologues like Randal S. Jeffrey '91 have lost races for chair, and former chair David A. Aronberg '93 says, "There's a greater sentiment that we should be handling student services." This year, the council offered no comment on Mansfield's remarks or on the selection of Gen. Colin Powell as commencement speaker...
Presumably the council members reflect the sentiment of the student body as a whole. "What's going to affect people more: the U.C. spending $800 on a Stairmaster or writing a letter about minority faculty hiring?" Students, once made sufficiently "aware," can return to the activities that more directly help them...
Dean of the School of Public Health Harvey V. Fineberg '67 echoes that sentiment. "I never expected it, but I'm in the middle group of deans at this stage," says Fineberg, who has led the school for nine years...
...think [the number of signatures] demonstrates that there's a strong sentiment among the students that the kind of discriminative labor practices Harvard has subjected its workers to is wrong," said coalition member Alejandro F. Reuss...
While they say political sentiment on campus has fluctuated in the last fifty years, the professors feel the academic atmosphere at the University has improved, without exception...