Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would revert again to the undergraduate life of the College and present for the consideration of men of the student body the conviction that here among us the influences are too much toward hammering out on the anvil of conventional sentiment 'a standardized type; Not that this tendency may not be too much present in American colleges in general, but our present concern is with Dartmouth life! Given common convictions against the cheap, the low, the unintelligent and the evil, the greater the variety of types and of attributes among Dartmouth men, the stronger the College will be. The evidence...
...commemorates our part in the recent war, and it inaugurates a new attempt to eliminate war--the Armament Conference at Washington. In celebrating the day with fitting ceremonies, it is to be hoped that the people's attention will be turned to the work of the conference, and that sentiment will be crystallized in favor of its projects...
...seems to me that you, as the representative of Public Sentiment at Harvard University, have missed a great chance to express the feelings of the whole College at this time, when, not only the students and professors, but also the whole people of Cambridge are experiencing a tremendous sorrow over the death of Mr. Fred Leavitt...
...examples of the straining after a vivid and detailed presentation of the milieu, quite in the manner of "Main Street". The story in the "Translation from the Navajo", despite the author's agreeable lightness of touch, and gift for fanciful invention, is well-high lost in the atmosphere. The sentiment of the verses headed "Amnesia" is poetic and apparently sincere, the technical frame-work is successful; but here the impression is impaired by a too highly colored wordiness. The setting is best managed in "The Walloping Window Blind", with admirable restraint and with something of Conrad's feeling...
...here without any definite ideas. It seems to me then that we ought to look at the Washington Conference just as if it were a football game;--all we students want to do is to cheer for the right side". When one learns that this was pretty generally the sentiment of the meeting, one is inclined to be a little sceptical of the talk about college men as leaders. If college men feel that they are taking an active part in the great task of the day merely by supporting any expression of belief in limitation of armaments--somewhere, sometime...