Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Love thy neighbor as thyself" is not a ruling maxim in the kingdom of exchange. Men say, indeed, that self-interest is king in this domain of business and the Christian law does not apply to the factory and the counting-room. Business is business. This common sentiment of the street takes its rise from Adam Smith and his school, whose false a priori assumption that self-interest is supreme over benevolence dominated economic theories for 100 years and whose bitter fruits we are still reaping, since such doctrine finds congenial soil in the natural heart. Smith and his contemporaries...
...attended chapel yesterday morning, the address delivered by the Rev. Phillips Brooks must have given great pleasure. The change in the ordinary method of conducting college prayers is one to be profoundly desired by all who have the religious interests of Harvard at heart. We think we voice the sentiment of the college, when we say that a few earnest words addressed to the students every morning not only renders the service more attractive, but must have a powerful influence over the students. It is a fact that the ordinary chapel service repeated morning after morning does tend to become...
...staid conservatism of Yale underwent a convulsion some two weeks ago quite startling in its extent, whose effects happily have not yet entirely disappeared. This commotion which stirred college sentiment so deeply and attracted quite general notice from the press of the country, was occasioned by an editorial in the Courant protesting in earnest language against the system in vogue at the Sabbath services. The genuine truth of its ideas combined with their strong expression, are what earned for the article its universal attention and approbation. There is a rumor - so indefinite as to almost fail of being a rumor...
...Everett, made publicly some time ago, that young men to-day are not as thorough in their work or as determined in their purposes as young men were in his day, when a careful reading of the leading article of the Monthly betrays a repetition of the sentiment. Dr. Everett, in English not particularly elegant, pictures student life at Harvard thirty years ago, and manages to intersperse a fair degree of contempt for certain methods which at present obtain among the students. But a class of students whose reading was Dickens, although two or more years younger than the corresponding...
Columbia, very shrewdly concealed her opinion by constantly referring Yale's questions to Harvard, and Harvard, at a poorly attended and very uninteresting class meeting, admitted Yale simply on the ground of the genally expressed sentiment in Boylston Hall, that '89 could see "no reason why Yale could not come...