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Word: sentiments (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...field, it is a great disadvantage to her in every other respect, for it lowers the general tone of the college and causes that marked contrast between the swaggering type which, in a way, represents Yale, and the more refined type which is conceded to Harvard. It creates a sentiment among her alumni which enables them to listen with proud and beaming countenances to a speech as rowdies in character as that celebrated speech of Peters of the Bones, wherein, in strangely mixed metaphor, he referred to the Harvard man as "a kid-gloved lamb." If, in order to beat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Extract from Senior Class Dinner Oration. | 12/9/1887 | See Source »

...which he says "not only tend to discourage looseness of living and to found a strong constitution, but, if taken rightly, they can hardly fail to develop in the athlete to a marked degree the qualities of courage, perseverance, loyalty, and a high sense of honor." This is a sentiment which must commend itself to all earnest, thinking men. It is undoubtedly the true way to look at athletics; and to reach this result, Mr. Wendell contends, the athlete must begin with a thorough respect for and appreciation of his sport; and he must especially avoid all tricks and underhand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 12/8/1887 | See Source »

...view of the general sentiment at Cornell that the turbulence between the two lower classes has been excessive, the sophomores have just held a meeting in which it was resolved that "We desparage and discourage a continuance of turbulence and that we refrain from any action which would reflect dishonor upon the University." A motion was also carried that "The freshmen whose pants had been decorated with a sophomore poster should be supplied with a new pair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/7/1887 | See Source »

...brightest days, is very deficient and ill-arranged. The library authorities have such a scheme in consideration, but it clearly would be poor policy to commence the undertaking before they have enough money to carry it through. The proper place, it seems to me, to start the sentiment that is the kind of bequest most needed just now, is right here among the undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communications. | 11/22/1887 | See Source »

Mlle. Helene Hastreiter rendered the Aria from Orpheus in a dramatic but rather harsh style. Her voice is very rich and melodious in the lower register, but inchmed to be throaty in high sustained passages. She sings utterly without sentiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Symphony Concert. | 11/4/1887 | See Source »

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