Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when he declares that our chief purpose in wishing to play professionals is to learn a few more "tricks" he puts the matter in a wholly false light. We do not want to win the championship by tricks, if by "tricks" "X" means anything underhanded or unfair. All the sentiment of the University is against it. As "X" declares, we already know the essentially fine points of the game. What we should hope and expect to receive at the hands of professionals would be a few sound drubbings. It would be the best practice in the world. The nines...
...Brooks spoke of the necessity for the strong man of reverence, of obedience and of self-sacrifice. The reverence which men feel toward God must be more than a pleasing sentiment: it must be a deep, powerful influence coming from a sense of the incomprehensibility of God and working to save the world from shallowness and failure. It is to be left neither to saints nor to cranks. The child must have it; the scientist and the mechanic. By reverence alone, which is the hiding of the eyes before the mystery and the majesty of God, can we know...
...into general prominence through the columns of your paper a feeling which is growing stronger and stronger every day, against a certain custom now in vogue here, which has nothing better than a precedent of three years' standing to recommend and sustain it. I refer to the existing college sentiment which gives the exclusive right of wearing broad black and red striped blazers to members of the University teams. It seems odd that the Harvard colors, which belong by right to every man in the University, should be restricted by a nonsenical custom to the exclusive use of a small...
...does, from unprejudiced men, is, in itself, a sufficient argument for the careful consideration which we may be sure it will receive. Our only hope is that the answer may come as soon as is possible, and that it may prove to be in accordance with the best sentiment of the college. Meanwhile, as the question is pending, the students should wait patiently believing that the Faculty will decide for their good...
...think that the Harvard undergraduates themselves see and regret this tendency and are ready to join hands with the Faculty and graduates to remove it, and also to raise the standard of inter-collegiate athletics, by fostering a sentiment which shall consider victory too dear if purchased at the expense of fair play and courtesy to opponents...