Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...paper belonging to the association, will satisfy a long-felt need in college journalism. The advantages of such an institution will be more especially felt at a time when a matter of inter-collegiate interest is under discussion, and when it may be desirable or interesting to learn the sentiment of other colleges with respect to the matter. It is true that this function is partially fulfilled by a system of exchanges, but where most of the college papers are published weekly, biweekly and monthly, it is not at all times convenient to wait for one, two or three weeks...
B.While the above undoubtedly represents the tone of sentiment at Amherst at present, the report which has recently appeared in the public press that the faculty at Amherst has forbidden the students to engage in any inter-collegiate contests whatever, if true, lends a new aspect to the question, and will, at least, necessitate Amherst's withdrawal from the present league...
...speaking so plainly and boldly on this important question. "To compel men to affect a semblance of religion which has no correspondence in their hearts, is an outrage on the men concerned and on all true religion," is a statement, the truth of which, is self-evident, and the sentiment of which, we believe, is that of every undergraduate of Harvard whatever his creed. It is an "outrage," and should be called by no milder name, that these blue-laws are in force at the foremost university of America. All this nobody denies; and yet slow year drags after year...
...spirit of the Yale press just before the Thanksgiving game was typical. We do not refer to the Yale News, which is of a decidedly lower tone than the sentiment of the college would authorize. We have nothing to say to its wretched personalities, which would imply that the referees of the Harvard-Yale and Princeton-Yale games were open to the suspicion of dishonesty. We do not deal in that kind of merchandise, and we hope that the News holds the exclusive copyright.-[Princetonian...
...have found convenient to use." Our Yale friend seems to have lost sight of an important fact, viz: that Harvard College represented not more than two-thirds of the spectators; and right here it would be well to remark that it is not the college which follows blindly whatever sentiment her papers chance to adopt, as the Record chooses to insinuate, but on the contrary, the papers represent, and that, too, most adequately the popular opinion of the college. The editorial goes on to state: "The result was a bitter disappointment, of course," alluding to Harvard, "but does that justify...