Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...friends, and to regard as unpardonable errors the faults of all others. This sort of thing must stop. The best man must be seated in the crew, no matter how inferior he may be to some others in the scales of sociability. It is not a matter of sentiment; the management is elected to further the interests of the college and secondarily the class, and it would be well for them to realize the extent of this responsibility. It is Yale's claim that every man who signifies his intention of becoming a candidate for any team shall be given...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- Your remarks in Wednesday issue about hour examinations seem well-founded. They undoubtedly voice the sentiment of nine-tenths of the students on that subject. If we are to have a return of regular, oft-recurring examinations, let us have them in the shape of monthlies, to whose occurrence we can look forward with certainty. Such an arrangement would be far less disagreeable than the present whimsical system...
...Inter-Collegiate Press dinner last Friday evening, a speech was made descrying the appointment of recent graduates from colleges to tutorships. The sentiment of the gathering was unanimous in favor of the opinion expressed by the speaker...
...Beecher did not give utterance to the words quoted, nor was the sentiment which he wishes to convey, and which he did convey to those present, such as our contemporary would have its readers believe. Captain Beecher did not train his team "to fight the referee," nor did any one who heard what he said take it that way. The idea which he did give was that he had trained his team to win in spite of all obstacles, even if the referee were one of them. If the Harvard papers have reached that state where they wish to stake...
...snobbery is entirely foreign to the tone of the Harvard spirit, it could easily be done away with without injuring that spirit. The only thing, however, that can accomplish the overthrow of snobbery is a reform in the general sentiment of the college, an awakening in the whole college of a sense of the common good. It seems that the tendency of the times is already in that direction. To that end we add our prayers...