Word: sentimentality
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...College, to which the university's graduate schools are comparatively recent and traditionally minor adjuncts. Beneath the Lampoon's youthful vulgarity and ink-intoxicated rudeness there seemed to be a note of genuine bitterness which, since Harvard men are often sad, may have adumbrated some portion of adult Harvard sentiment on the "inner college" plan The Lampoon also said the following...
...greeted Mr. Coolidge as "one of the best and most fair-minded Presidents the country has had in many years, who unquestionably will be regarded as more popular on leaving the Presidency than when he entered it." President Coolidge was visibly affected by this sentiment and thanked Mr. Bok before reading his prepared address...
...letter, by whisper, by everything except precise calculation, the official and unofficial agencies of U. S. Government were attempting to fix exactly what should be spent to enforce its most famed law in fiscal 1930. The question was completely devoid of definitions but was pungently involved with politics, sentiment, vanity, religion, and a dozen characters, of which the most distinguished were the President of U. S. and the President-Elect...
...Hall, seconded by the Editor, makes a plea for the preservation of Harvard as it is today which he confesses to be based chiefly on sentiment. He carries the House Plan into the future, trying to look beyond the range of current prophecies, and perceiyes a Harvard cut up into autonomous units, a College no longer existant even in name, and above all a desecrated Yard. It is this last calamity that seems above all others to arouse Mr. Hall's apprehension. "The Yard, our only shrine, will be obliterated" is the constant burden of his opposition. One feels tempted...
...Since my visit last May to your beautiful factory, the effect on me has been cumulative, and the receipt the other day of an announcement of your arrangement for expansion through a chain of stores not only prompts but impels an expression of my sentiment held in check since that time...