Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case for chemical warfare. Since recovering from the war fever, the country has been singularly apathetic towards military preparations. Whether this is a passing attitude or a permanent lowering of the pugnacious spirit, is not yet apparent. The student body, too, has felt this reaction and the pacifistic sentiment is well represented in the University, as last year's discussion proved. Thus an intelligent decision on the question of preparedness or pacifism demands both sides be heard; and toward this end General Fries will be most welcome...
...with immoral publications differs somewhat from the Comstockian* method. Last week, one Otto Rostock walked into the office of Herr Hugo Bettaur, publisher of a "villainously immoral magazine." He fired directly at the publisher, who fell, wounded. Rostock announced to the police that he wished to "arouse the moral sentiment of Vienna...
...Fire Dr. Lowell and pick another president for Harvard," is the sentence with which Dudley Nichols begins his last article on conditions at the University in the New York Evening Post. He attributes this sentiment to a group of alumni. That his whole series is marked by a somewhat hasty and superficial understanding of the attitude of faculty, alumni, and undergraduates is a conclusion which might be drawn by the careful reader from his previous discussions. His final summary bears out this opinion...
...program of thirteen numbers and two reminiscences proved much of the same sort as last year's. There was melodrama in "Stenka Razin", high tragedy in "The King Orders the Drums to be Beaten", sentiment in "A Winter Evening", sentimentality in "The Arrival at Bethlehem", sugar-sweet delicacy in many others, and varying degrees of piquancy, satire, burlesque, and buffoonery in the rest. Their were pleasures for all tastes. Color, line, and grace abounded; the characters, whenever there were any, stood out distinctly in the talents of the actors, but best of all were the voices. Whether in verse...
...Mediaeval monks possessed all the knowledge of their day; yet the conviction is now widespread that their's was a terribly warped and limited existence, and not a pattern to be copied. It would be a mistake to attribute too much sour-grape sentiment to the average undergraduate who refuses to do obeisance to a pure "Rank List" ideal. The ideal college man is an earnest student--but he is more than that. He would be a man--full and complete man--but the "Rank List" ideal too often produces only partial men, great heads on puny bodies, mere walking...