Word: sentimentally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many ways, those early collaborators, William Allen White and Al- bert Bigelow Paine, are much alike-in their humor, their real sentiment, their kindliness, their fearlessness. They are of a tradition that persists, in spite of changing habits of mind...
...objection which prevented the building of a modern plant was that people might think the college was becoming commercialized. Sentiment for-bade the students to have what they desired. A building on Harvard Square would have paid for itself by now. But sentiment forbade...
...moving the cafeteria into the lower end of Memorial, the lower end was partitioned off and left blank. Half of the Serving-room is idle. All equipment is half utilized. The upstairs rooms are empty. Yet there was no room for a cafeteria, for the cafeteria was disliked. Sentiment again. At the first of the year graduate students were preached a sermon, "Be thou gregarious". To be gregarious meant to eat in groups of two, four, and six, rather than tens, or twelves as it used to be on Kirkland street. To get the most out of our studies...
...confronted with inconsistency. Sound business propositions were turned down and actually prevented from operating for sentiment's sake. The college refused to give the students ideal eating conditions on a commercial basis. It was preferred to remain on a sentimental basis. Yet for a purely commercial reason Memorial Hall is to be closed...
...Sentiment may attribute the passing of Memorial Hall to the decadence of the present generation of college students. Such sentiment fails to consider that institutions must cater to the student if he is to approve them. Unless they do, students, who are always realists living in the present, will build new institutions of their own and leave the old in picturesque decay. The closing of Memoria Hall is a natural sequence of the failure to meet the demands of adaptation. University life few away and left Memorial Hall isolated, not because Harvard ceased to need it, but because Memorial Hall...