Word: sentimentality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ground is masked under the cloak of convenience, saving in land investment, better light, etc., but it is perfectly obvious that an exuberant community is merely indulging in a little self-advertising. No starting academic progress may be expected from such an innovation, and on the grounds of sentiment the thing becomes preposterous. Buildings pleasantly mantled with ivy, the play of sunlight among structures dedicated each to a special function of academic life, above all, the absence of trees, which do more to make an attractive campus than anything else, can find no place about a skyscraper. At the very...
...definite arrangement has been reached yet as to what kind of a play the Club will give. Sentiment seems to be divided between a revue with a sales of specialties and a play with an indicate plot. The decision depends on the action of the Committee in charge of the selection of the play. This choice will be made in the early part of December, and in the meantime all men who intend to write plays have been asked to hand in a synopsis of their work at 16 Rollis Hall by Monday night, November...
...incident will only intensify the opposition. The popular mind will be more impressed by a concrete example of voluntary martyrdom than by countless exhortations as to the sanctity of National honor. It was no vulgar suicide that the patriot committed but the appeal through a recognized ritual to the sentiment of his countrymen. The appeal has not been forgotten, as the removal of his body to a more sacred resting place testifies. No one can deny that the memory of his deed will be a stimulus to haired of the United States nor that nationalists and militarists will make...
...Throughout the country sentiment is strongly in favor of Mr. Coolidge," said Julius Wadsworth, chairman of the Republican Club. "The union will demonstrate its faith in the silent man of the White House tomorrow by an ever whelming majority...
...dishes and dishes of food that succeeded one another. Savory food it was, nourishing, succulent; but on the little cards beside each place it was called by strange names-Borax, Benzoate, Coal Tar, Copper Sulfate, Saltpeter, Saccharin. Thus were those dishes named, each after a poison, out of sentiment. For, had it not been for Dr. Wiley, the names might have become the dishes, though they would have been called Bread, Jam, Sugar, Chocolate, out of sentiment. Each of the items on the menu of that feast was the name of an enemy Dr. Wiley had laid low many years...