Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sing; but the scattered attempts failed. When a university has as fine a collection of songs as Harvard has and when excellent music is provided, why not sing? But disorganized singing is as ineffectual as a hen without a head; it gets nowhere. Reflecting what was clearly the sentiment of the cheering section, we repeat what someone shouted at Saturday's game "Bring on a song-leader...
...States, deploring the ever-increasing attacks made against their political and social right and life, especially since the Great War. He asserted that the Negro's faith in the rightcons purpose of the Federal Government was sagging as the black population found itself ever more closely surrounded with a sentiment of antagonism intentionally unfair...
...masses of the colored people do not belong to these more radical movements. They retain their belief in the Christian God, they love their country, and hope to work out their salvation within its bounds; but they are completely disillusioned. They see themselves surrounded on every hand by a sentiment of antagonism which does not intend to be fair. They see themselves partly reduced to peonage, shut out from labor unions, forced to an inferior status before the courts, made subjects of public contempt, lynched and mobbed with impunity, and deprived of the ballot, their only means of social defense...
...surface, this appears unfair, just as it is hard not to feel a sneaking sentiment of sympathy for the Lucifer of "Paradise Lost". Rebels against the established order of things have from time immemorial found themselves butting a stone wall. And in the case of would-be Adams, usually sensationalists, the stone wall is too well-founded to give much but a crushing rebuttal...
...Twenty institutions, including all the larger colleges in the northeastern section of the country, were represented by delegates, in most cases the editors-in-chief or business managers of the newspapers. It was a thoroughly representative gathering, including athletes as well as undergraduate journalists, and the resolution reflected a sentiment that, although indefinite and inarticulate, was at the same time general...