Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maestro has already excited students. "I'd jump at the chance to have the President as a professor," says Senior Annette Bingham, a government major. "His experience in government would be invaluable to almost any student," allows Junior Larry Upshaw, who opposes Johnson on Viet Nam. The sentiment, however, is not universal. "If Lyndon Johnson came here to teach government," snirted a coed studying political science, I'd change my major to journalism...
...recruitment resolution, in its final form, is the result of much debate, re-writing, and compromise. It began in late March as an informal motion by Charles S. Maier, instructor in History, who felt that students should have some say in who might be excluded from recruiting. If student sentiment was strong enough. Maier suggested, then the Deans could require recruiters to discuss their policies in public, and if sentiment was again strong enough, the appropriate deans could ask companies to postpone their visits. This proposal, Maier admits, was directly aimed at averting another Dow demonstration...
...stiffened in place less by prejudice than by habit. A mere handful of shoppers serially stating their concern to a local storekeeper because he hires no Negro help are likely to revolutionize his personnel policy: from this modest sample, in a pattern familiar to psychologists, the proprietor senses the sentiment of the community-or thinks he does. New behavior patterns can change old attitudes. "People will assume that it's right to have all-white clerks if you have all-white clerks," says Pettigrew. "And they will also assume that it's right to have an integrated staff...
...question was also brought up as to how and when next year's undergraduate members would be elected. Members expressed sentiment for having at-large, college-wide elections, rather than within each House, as was the case this year...
...there is still work to be done here in translating the sentiment for an Afro-American studies into a workable program. The mechanics of setting up a degree committee should not prove difficult; the CEP earlier this year discussed a proposal by Bruce Chalmers, Master of Winthrop House, to establish such committees for any student with a legitimate plan for concentration which fell outside the range of normal Harvard fields...