Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...over a newspaper made especially for him. It was compiled by Clerk John McCabe, who had gathered together a vast assortment of press clippings on the pending Tariff and Farm Relief Bills, pasted them in large scrap books. The President was disturbed to find that 90% of the press sentiment was against the House's Tariff handiwork. Around Washington sped the gossip that he would veto the Tariff Bill unless the Senate altered it to conform more nearly to popular desires...
...question you ask as to the John Sargent's War pictures in the Harvard Library, my recollection is that they are in a style and in a vehicle rather more suited to the magazine cover and to the poster than to a university library. And as to their sentiment,--perhaps they do recall the fierce antagonism of the great war. Nevertheless I do not favor removing them. The habit of pulling down monuments has in it something of the childish. Why not let the decorations stand for what they are worth and for the epoch they record? Such a practice...
Beneath the whole episode grew a sentiment in the Senate for a change in its rules to do away with secret executive sessions on nominations. Polls showed many more than a majority of Senators in favor of some escape from their present embarrassing position...
Radcliffe profited greatly from Dean Briggs's administration, as it had profited from Mrs. Agassiz's services. Dean Briggs's permanent values to the college were also clearly marked. He fused a loose student sentiment into great loyalty: he found ways to enlarge the curriculum, and he had a large share in bringing Radcliffe's resources to a little more than $4,000,000 in 1923. Under his guidance Radcliffe adhered to the policy of counting only Harvard courses toward the A.B. degree, and it shared in Harvard's decision to preserve certain courses as graduate in character...
This statement produced varied effects. It was hardly more than the Second Dawes Committee delegates had expected, but in many quarters it produced a sentiment of discouragement, an opinion that the U. S. persisted in being "timidly aloof...