Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...action it is only fair to say that the Athletic Committee is in as hard a position as a body of men could well be. Confronted on the one side by two Faculty recommendations "to curtail largely the number of intercollegiate contests," and on the other by an undergraduate sentiment violently opposed to such an action, the Committee has felt called upon to act, and has therefore taken the first step in yielding to the stronger of the two opinions. But, if there is to be a concession it is apparently coming in a modified form, and not exactly...
...public weal, and by others as the corner-stone of literature. Napoleon said that he feared three newspapers more than 100,000 soldiers, and Wendell Phillips and others have expressed opinions that the newspaper is a tremendous factor in a country, because it is the mouth-piece of public sentiment...
...convinced that if an undergraduate sentiment which will tend to frown upon this practice of leave-taking can be created, a weighty argument against the continuation of intercollegiate athletics will eliminate itself. J. L. DERRY...
...characters, social conditions, and past states of public opinion." Professor Rhodes has been president of the American Historical Association, and is a highly honored member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and of other New England bodies. His great power lies in his ability to reconstruct past times and public sentiment. Professor Rhodes's lecture tonight on "Edward Gibbon" should be especially interesting inasmuch as it is the study of one notable by another...
With Harvard, Yale and Princeton all working toward this end, and with Harvard already strong on the intracollegiate side, there is little cause for worry. When sentiment is general, results are inevitable...