Word: sentimental
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...life of the community in which he has lived and the life of the country at large which has made him the leading private citizen of the Republic. His counsel has been felt in affairs for a generation and always felt in the interest of right action and wholesome sentiment...
...Public sentiment in the beginning was that we had made a serious mistake in assuming the responsibility for these islands, and that we should find problems there which we could not overcome. This feeling is now changed, and we have succeeded beyond our greatest hopes in the administration of the Philippines. A government is successfully established; the necessary bureaus and offices are arranged; justice is given to all; the islands are strictly self-supporting, and require no financial help from the United States. The archipelago is in good sanitary condition, disease is eliminated as far as possible, roads, railways, harbors...
...operate with the Athletic Committee in eradicating the specific evils in the conduct of athletics. The attainment of this purpose is to be effected in part by direct jurisdiction over individual students, the method of so doing to be explained here-after, and in part by creating the general sentiment that it is a question of individual and college honor to maintain a strict attention to scholastic duties...
President Eliot, in opening his address, spoke of the appreciation of Harvard as a sentiment that grows with each year after graduation. The graduates of 25 years have been showing their appreciation in late years by gifts of $100,000 as they celebrate their anniversaries; sure evidence of loyalty, of anything but "indifference...
...Sophomore class, who can present not even a plea of ignorance, let it be said that the first Monday of College has ceased to be any different from any other Monday and that any attempts at disturbance of any kind are in direct opposition to the general sentiment of the great majority of undergraduates...