Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...system of actions and many ways dubbed 'poppycock' by the college world at large. This found manifestation in many ways, all marked by an assumption of mystery and standoffishness in everything that related to the societies in any way, however distant. Of late years, however, a strong sentiment of opposition to 'poppycock' has been steadily developing. Among undergraduates the opposition has grown very quietly. In 1884 it was at its height. The Senior Class in that year held a class-meeting to protest against it. Among the present Senior members of Bones there had grown up during Junior year...
That the feeling of hostility between the sophomores and freshmen finds vent on "Bloody Monday" night is in a way, true. But whether it would find vent in hazing if "Bloody Monday" were not observed is by no means as clear. The sentiment at Harvard today is very strong against hazing, or anything that partakes of the nature of it, and it is this feeling, and not the fear of punishment, that prevents sophomores to-day from reviving this custom of the past. But in any case the influence resulting from hazing could not be worse than that from "Bloody...
...resignation of Columbia from the College League leaves the fourth place vacant, and if the present state of things continues, Yale will be a member of the triangular league, which was found so objectionable in anticipation last winter. There is every reason to believe that the sentiment of the University on this point is unchanged, and it is to be hoped that the base-ball management will use all its influence to fill the vacancy at once. The adoption of such a course would be of material aid to the finances of the club, besides being in harmony with...
...EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST: Sir-The popular sentiment in America upon the Irish question is well known. The popular sentiment in England is about the same as that in the United States; but there the student opinion is diametrically opposed to the popular notion. It was with a desire to ascertain whether the America students agree with the American masses or with the English students upon this "burning question" that Mr. Bryce has written to Dr. H. B. Adams...
...condition of Ireland does not justify coercion. Every one of the 87 coercion acts introduced during the present century was an act of barbarism! He criticised severely those sections of the bill which provide for the trial of offences by a foreign judge and by foreign juries. Public sentiment both in England and America has declared against it. It is unlawful, unwise and unjust...