Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which was held in Chicago during the recent. Christmas vacation and was attended by representatives of most of the larger colleges in the country, did much to bring about a better feeling between the colleges and to crystallize and standardize the athletic sentiment of the nation...
...more inclusive representation for college in the American Athletic Union, to the end that the colleges should have a greater part in the organization of the nation's preparation for the Olympic games. In this connection, Professor A. A. Stagg of the University of Chicago urged that a sentiment be created for a higher standard of sportsmanship in our efforts to win international events and thus prevent foreign nations from attributing to us the methods they describe as essentially those of professionals...
This resolution comes in good time. The League of Nations had undertaken plans for disarmament, but they amounted to nothing more than an expression of a desire, because Japan, though agreeing to the sentiment, refused to be bound in any way while the United States was proposing to double its naval appropriations. The net result of all the talk was the conclusion that however desirable disarmament might be, it was unwise, until this country was also restricted. Senator Borah's resolution answers Japan's objection with no ambiguity. League or no League, we are ready to do business...
...play would demand attention from the spectators and would be real football. There never has been a real argument made against such a provision in the rules, which have already been worked out with too much regard for sentiment and not enough for red-blooded football...
...Star has never believed that the hoodlumism which has found its expression in the burning of British flags in New York sity was representative of an even appreciable proportion of real American sentiment. It is encouraging to note that three of the most representative of New York newspapers--the Times, the Tribune and the World--agree with this belief...