Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rooming in the Yard has become a recognized tradition, and much effort is expended every year in persuading the members of the Junior class to follow it. Sentiment and association are argued at length, nor are class unity and intimacy forgotten...
...form of government. One newspaper is bold enough to say that Mr. Mellon is right and that because it will be bad for the people it should be withheld from them; another, making a bid for favor among its readers consequently is for it; still others, playing entirely upon sentiment, and having no regard for economic laws or anything else of even a semi-logical nature, will openly and blatantly advocate a bonus--the bill to be footed by Wall Street in some mysterious manner. But what is the general feeling of the people about the question? It is unfortunately...
...annual report of President A. Lawrence Lowell to the overseers of Harvard University. The report reflects an attitude that is coming to be assumed by many of those interested in the future of intercollegiate competition. It is everywhere recognized that the growing importance of athletics wherever alumni and undergraduates sentiment is concerned has tendered to rob some enthusiasts of their perspective and has given good grounds for charges of commercialism...
...studies the signs in the skies can doubt that a show-down is coming. Intense interest in sports, to the extent that the primary purposes of a college are forgotten, will build a structure of sentiment that will not stand. No one questions the value of athletics as a great developing instrument for many of the most desirable qualities of mental and bodily strength. Increased athletic facilities and the effort everywhere to interest the greatest possible number in the various forms of sport is a hopeful indication of future dividends in health and citizenship. But somehow or other this "greatest...
...civic patriotism that draws educated and able men into politics. We have had to pay for our lack of interest by putting up with a dozen Curleys, Hylans and Thompsons for every executive of real ability like Nathan Matthews and John Purroy Mitchell. If Senator Walsh rightly interprets the sentiment of American voters, if they prefer to see college men who ought to be able to become intelligent reformers, avoid the problem, then we shall have plenty of time to keep on paying the bill for incompetency and graft...