Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is a sentiment for Harvard alumni, and not Harvard alumni alone, to keep in mind today when the subscription list is passed around. New York World
Altogether, the Digest's returns of over a million and a half votes have been a feature of no little interest in the pre-convention weeks; and have been in some ways fully as illuminating as to the course of public sentiment as some of the lightly attended official primaries. --Boston Herald
...exhaustion, how the well-coached dark horse was jockeyed into position in the intermediate ballots, and how he broke away for an overwhelming victory at the finish. The results of the convention reveal not only the inefficiency of the popular primaries, but also the total inefficiency of popular sentiment in affecting at all the final decision...
Cornell must keep her weather eye on the fluctuations of undergraduate sentiment, so that she may bring the Honor System in on a tide so strong that no undercurrents can wreck its course. --Cornell...
...question, Would Cornell know what to do in such a case? It is perfectly clear that the so-called system cannot exist and thrive merely on the threat of expulsion or social ostracism for violation: it can only live when the great mass of undergraduate and particularly upperclass sentiment puts a ban on dishonesty, when Cornell students shall look upon acts of deceit with just as much disfavor as do students of the University of Virginia, for instance. There is no difference in the type of student, at the two universities certainly. Our American democratic spirit grants the First Families...