Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...divergent sentiment seems to ripple the surface of undergraduate opinion. The Lehigh Brown and White of last Friday carried an editorial entitled, "Could the Honor System Be Renewed?" This briefly recounts the history of the Honor System at Lehigh which was abolished two years ago by a majority vote of students after it had been in vogue for some 20 years. Following a discussion of the advantages of the Honor System, it concludes with the statement that "we sincerely believe that the renewal of such a system would be a long stride toward a greater Lehigh." It is gratifying...
Temperamental weather, including heat, hail and thunder storms, chills and high winds, have proved disturbing to grain prices, although advancing them. Outside that, the week proved serene and somewhat monotonously cheerful. Perhaps the improvement in what is called "business sentiment" was revealed in the stockmarket, where a tendency was shown to lift prices out of their late doldrums...
...requirements of a major sport in every point, and failure to recognize it as such at Princeton means not only that we will lag behind the procession of other universities but that our representatives in that sport will be severely handicapped in intercollegiate competition. We feel that the sentiment of the University, if once aroused, is overwhelmingly in favor of granting it its proper place among the major sports. At the same time we realize that it takes just about an even ton of dynamite to stir the majority of the undergraduates and undergraduate organizations into action. --Daily Princetonian...
...Senior in Harvard College the publication of the Class Album has come to be an event with perhaps a bit more of sentiment in it than attaches to the formality of receiving a degree. It is not strange. The whole record of those four years, insofar as it can be photographed and walled up in sentences and paragraphs, is collected between the covers, and to give the Album a place on even the dustiest shelf is to possess, when it was richest, a corner of the Yard...
...Chicago, determined to organize a system of telegraph delivery like that which has long been a prop of the florist trade. "Books telegraphed anywhere," is the slogan. Booksellers hope that this will stimulate those whom life has parted to use books for the expression of a thought, a sentiment, as they now use flowers...