Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students has been called by the authors of the petition for next Monday evening. There is, of course, no need to point out the importance of a full attendance at this meeting. If the petition is to have any weight at all, it will be because it voices the sentiment of the college. For this reason, therefore, we urge every man who takes any interest in Harvard athletics to be present and vote for or against the ratification of the petition as his convictions prompt...
...junior year and failed, but it does not follow that '85 would be equally unsuccessful. Classes here before, I believe, have had successful junior dinners and '85 would do well to follow their example. If a class meeting were to be held for the purpose of finding how the sentiment of the class stood in regard to this project, I think a large number of men would be found to favor it. '85.vor...
...that in so important a matter action taken in mass meeting of the entire college would be likely to have more weight with the faculty and probably elsewhere, than the secret petition of the officers of our athletic societies, however accurately such petition may express the drift of college sentiment...
...matter of the new athletic regulations, and as the college papers have as yet failed to present that position as I conceive it to be, I shall endeavor to express what appears to me to be the student feeling. If I am mistaken in my interpretation of that sentiment, I do not doubt that I will soon be corrected through your columns. In the first place, I should like to have it understood that we do not question the good intentions of the faculty. Every student appreciates their motives, and although the students may not agree on the action...
...regulation by a kind faculty? We have been playing a rather rougher game of football than in the past. True; but it is a well-known fact that the students as a body were opposed to the roughness of the game, and there can be no doubt that student sentiment would have stepped in to prevent the repetition of such playing in another year. But the ill-advised action of the athletic committee last fall made it a matter of honor for the students to continue the game through the season. For my part, I can see no excesses...