Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course individual opinion will not much influence the sentiment of the whole class in one direction or another, but there are some men, of whom I profess to be one, who would seriously lament to see this day done away with, fittingly commemorating as it does, in both jollity and seriousness, the successful termination of a laborious course of four years, in some cases five or more...
...James. His minute descriptions of his heroines, beginning with the "finely pencilled eyebrows" and "shell-like ear," and extending to the "delicately turned ankle," give one the impression of an elegant china doll; and when from the mouth of this superb being issues a flood of pedantic sentiment, one turns with relief to the "One Summers" of our own time. Here we find something that might possibly happen in our own experience. However unpleasant it might be, there is certainly nothing unnatural in being poked as to the eye with a young lady's umbrella, and the species of "gush...
Such, as it seems to me, is, on the whole, the prevailing sentiment in college. As an evidence of this, I adduce the fact that our representative men are those who least apply themselves to the purpose for which the College was founded. One would think, from a priori reasons, that the representatives of a college would be its leading scholars. From experience, however, we know that such is not the case. And the consequence is, that instead of being a leader in discovery, invention, and opinion, the representative Harvard graduate of to-day is, as a general thing...
...this sentiment in regard to work I ascribe what truth there may be in the opinion which I have quoted. To say that the sentiment ought to be corrected would be a mere truism. Of this we may be sure, that in the long run hard work will tell against liberal advantages. Harvard men are now judged in the outside world by their catalogue and list of electives; and their agreeable manners serve to heighten the favorable impression. But in time the artificiality and unfitness for real life of most Harvard men will be discovered...
...elsewhere, but he will forget the existence of numbers whose paths have deviated from his own. If he is not a member of a society, his class associations will be nothing more than reminiscences of a limited circle of personal friends. The elective system, in fact, has destroyed the sentiment of class feeling which was so strong at Harvard during the last generation. Our own class traditions can hardly be distinguished from our society memories; and it seems to me that my former arguments for nomination by societies will stand the test of class tradition...