Word: sentimentality
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...first wife. For diversion he took an interest in minor public enterprises. In 1913 he was president of Colorado Taxpayers' Protective League-in 1917, chairman of the Mountain division of the Liberty loan campaign. A Republican, he ran for the U. S. Senate in 1918. Anti-Wilson sentiment helped elect him. In 1924 the big Coolidge vote helped keep him in office...
Queen Victoria, with a sentiment typically "Victorian," never forgot the coincidence which linked herself with "Dear Little May," and some historians hold that this was uppermost in the old lady's mind when she decided that the blooming girl should wed the Heir of Britain...
Princeton's active Grand Old Man is Professor Emeritus Henry Van Dyke, author, poet, preacher, onetime (1913-17) U. S. Minister to the Netherlands and Luxemburg. He it is who is brought out to show to visiting notables. But Princeton sentiment also embraces the aged Francis Landey Patton, President from 1888 to 1902. Upon his resignation, he took up the Presidency of Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1913 he went into retirement in Bermuda where he was born 87 years ago and whither he returned still a British subject. Holidaying Princetonians go to see him, shake his thin hand. They...
Dartmouth sentiment upon the vital issues, wine, women, and song, crystallized in the annual senior preference poll, shows some unexpected results. The gentile old fashioned atmosphere which has enveloped Hanover ever since a certain young lady who wore curls and shuddered at the sight of cigarettes found herself Dartmouth's Carnival Queen has been rudely dispelled by an emphatic vote of approval for brown eyes, black hair, and "speed" of an unspecified amount from Dartmouth seniors. A public led by impressionistic journalists to believe that a demure Dartmouth student body picks its feminine ideals out of Cooper's novels...
...CRIMSON in making its survey of Harvard sentiment on prohibition puts the same questions on its ballot as the Literary Digest editors are making use of in their poll, it should cover the matter pretty thoroughly," J. J. Burns, assistant professor in the Harvard Law School told a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. It will be rendering a valuable service, and will find. I think, that many men who are "dry" in their personal habits are opposed, to the present...