Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this morning's Princetonian a reply to the Lampoon. There will, of course, be no such reply. The Lampoon speaks not for, but against itself. About it and its humor we have nothing to say, except to inquire whether that periodical reflects as it purports to do, the sentiment of the majority of Harvard's adherents. Princeton undergraduates prefer to believe that it does not--but they want definite assurance to that effect...
...will oblivion's bitter cup be soon prepared for her. Having brooded over two generations, mostly girls, as Duty's very priestess, she was approached last winter by exceedingly ironic Biographer Thomas Beer. In The Mauve Decade he tore aside her veils of sentiment and revealed a harried housekeeper with bone-aches and a lounging father, most scornfully scribbling out what she herself called "moral pap for the young," to make ends meet. He showed that she herself read the racy French and Russian novels of her day; that she was gaunt, dowdy, with a deep tinge...
...more unity than the population of an apartment house; whereas Yale College--not Yale University, which is a very different thing, likes to sing about itself as "amiciusque and areas." And in Yale, where a simple piety seems more common, at any rate in certain nucleate of religious sentiment, than in most colleges, the religion of Harvard tends to appear as mere materialistic skepticism...
Harvard will admit that the Yale spirit, that intense sentiment of community loyalty, has its merits (for Yale men); but Harvard's own tradition has in modern times been individualistic. Harvard has grown from a small college to a large college with perhaps the minimum of shock; there are more individuals than there used to be, but the individual is the unit...
...said Mr. Roth, has seen and conquered its gastronomical crisis. The Eli eaters receive food in a common dining-hall; they have menus prepared by experts. All the cooking is attended to by feminine hands. Yale is now content, but two years ago it seethed with anti-lunch room sentiment. A dyspeptic group of agitators successfully raised their voices. The result is historic. The lunch rooms of New Haven stand empty, deserted are the purveyors of hot frankforts...