Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollar. No doubt the philosopher would not rank with these today, but the twelve letters of his name will be more lucrative in time to come. Already that name means something beyond valuation, to Harvard men in particular and the books themselves, with his marginal remarks, contain wisdom and sentiment as well...
...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of erudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding Hebrew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux et Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...
...report which proposes a more extensive and definite attitude on public affairs outside the colleges. It is recognized that "the undergraduate of today, being the leader of tomorrow, should learn before graduation to think in national terms." If the college publications can help to rouse and crystallize sentiment on important national and international matters, they will make undergraduate opinions more effective, give them an outlet, and perhaps help the students themselves to prepare for public activities after college. Undeniably, there is at the present time a revival of student enthusiasm for such matters. This is a tendency that can hardly...
California is overwhelmingly in favor of a World Court and sentiment is running strongly against ' those isolationists who, in a spirit of intense egotism and narrowness would wrap the American flag about them and cry " economic, industrial peace," when there is no peace.' Irvine L. Lenroot (R.), Senator from Wisconsin, told a representative of The Christian Science Monitor here...
...Berlin. This sort of thing certainly gives the lie to the opinion still in vogue among cynical subway riders that McCormack's reputation results from crowding audiences of servant girls and from other manifestations of Gaelic loyalty. The tenor, far from being a showy player to gushy sentiment, is one of the most refined and scholarly of artists...