Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must be a great relief and rather an encouragement to those same reformers to find that their notoriously proper neighbors across the water are suffering from the same lamentable public sentiment which supports our pink and green and yellow journals to "pander to the blood lust of a host of lowbrow readers". In this part of the world there have been so many murder stories recently, reported of necessity by even the best newspapers, that the genuine highbrow (a species which appears to be dangerously near extinction in the welter of blood and bullets) must discontinue his newspaper subscriptions altogether...
...dormitories themselves have been restored, until it would seem that the only remaining objection is the persistent and premature college bell, which lingers tenaciously, the firmest of traditions, in the face of many campaigns to silence it. But even that becomes less offensive by familiarity, and takes on sentiment with its fellow traditions...
Your editorial of this morning on the relation of Text Books to Jelly and the one several weeks ago concerning private appropriation of library books must express the sentiment of that vast group of college students who love books because books can be friends. But you ought to notice editorially that smaller groups of college students who entertain no such love, cherish no such fondness, for the sanctum of books. In the endeavor to please that smaller group, I suggest the following...
There seems to be a sentiment in the college and certainly among some of the graduates to the effect that Harvard can easily beat Princeton this year. Just why this should be so is difficult to say, unless these would-be optimists are looking only at the teams on paper. Even this is difficult to explain after the Chicago game. Harvard has a good team with a better than average backfield but it is an untried organization. It has as yet this year not had a real fight on its hands and even at that has stumbled a good deal...
...read further. Subsequent readers often waste much time in trying to decipher the pencilled comments. Even if all the witticisms were of the order of those mentioned above, there might be some excuse; but the average comment, and the most frequent one, is "to Hell with Yale". The sentiment is undoubtedly patriotic and shows that all this talk about "Harvard indifference" is greatly exaggerated. But it might be suggested that the college patriots of the marginal note express their overflow of feeling in some more effective...