Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...many love affairs. There is an article on "Cross Country Running" by John Corbin. It is cleverly written and is decidedly above the average of the other articles of the number. The poetry is no credit to the authors, "A Hint to Ye Goode Sainte Valentine" is weak in sentiment, metre, and spelling, while "Elemental Passion" is only passable...
...University of Chicago has shown Itself in so many instances to possess a spirit unusually broad and liberal for an institution so young, that the announcement of compulsory attendance at chapel prayers there is hardly consistent with the professed policy, of the university or in accordance with the growing sentiment among other colleges. At Yale the feeling that prayers should be voluntary is becoming stronger each year and doubtless it will not be long before she follows the example which Harvard set some half dozen years ago and have prayers voluntary to students. With us the abolishment of compulsory attendance...
WHEREAS, it appears that there has been a strong and growing student sentiment against the practice of cheating in examinations, and further that the students desire to have the examinations so conducted as to be put upon their honor as gentlemen...
...political disputes. "Poetry", as Wordsworth says, "is the expression of emotion recollected in tranquility. "Now the age which followed Chaucer was one of unusual political activity. Either men did not write at all, or they wrote in a serious, controversial style, removed as far as possible from poetical sentiment. With their minds full of the important disputes going on around them, what wonder that they found no time for poetry...
...Present guarantees are insufficient.-(a) The only proposed constitution impracticable: R. N. Baskin, Argument against Admission Utah-(1) Disingenuous-(2) Limits state sovereignty: House Report, supra, p. 68-(3) Public sentiment does not support it.-(4) Judiciary in the hands of the Mormons.-(b) Mormons untrustworthy and unyielding: Utah Commission, supra 11.-(c) Movement toward statehood a last resort: Baskin, supra...