Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some method of lighting the library during the evening. The importance of this step has been shown by the numerous pleas for electric lights in the library in the different college papers. It is seldom that in any question concerning the internal affairs of the college the sentiment of the undergraduates and instructors is unanimous, but the benefits to be derived from lighting the library are so manifest as to make all those who are in the habit of using the library anxious to see electric lights introduced. Two or three years ago a strong effort was made to induce...
...challenge has been received by the Yale 'varsity crew to row the university crew of the Dublin University, provided the Yale crew goes over to England this spring to row Cambridge. No action has as yet been taken on the matter, but the sentiment is in favor of accepting the challenge, in case the Yale crew goes over to England...
...sequel to "A Nineteenth Century Romance." It is written in the same humorous vein, and is the best thing in the number. The verses, "What the Tower Says," contains a good idea, but may more properly be called rhyme than poetry. Mr. Dennison's "Alackaday" is good, though the sentiment is not strikingly original. The usual book notices and Brief fill out the number...
...prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss matters of great importance for the welfare of the University, it will be certain to obtain a larger influence in directing college sentiment than it has had in the past...
...pregnant with new and sensible observations on the routine of every day life. This piece, though short, is one of the best features in the table of contents. The verse in this number is obviously above the average. "The Rose of Harvard" is melodious and has a charming sentiment. "Questions" is so far above the commonplace that it is more than verse-it may justly be called poetry...