Word: sentimentality
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...decided by the Council to submit the question to the University both in order to make sure that the student body was in favor of the proposal, and to give the Faculty, on whom the final decision rests, a more representative opinion of the general sentiment. The voting will take place next Tuesday at polls in the Union, the CRIMSON Building and the Freshman dormitories...
...girl, poorly clad, whose pinched face spoke the lack of food." From this point on the old millionaire buys Christmas presents until along toward the end, when we hear of "the star which they saw in the East"; and catch from the mother of the wisp that ever-beautiful sentiment, "God bless you, Mr. Campbell. My dead husband once worked for you, and he said you were a hard man. But he surely was wrong." And all this time, "Somehow his heart seemed very light and young within him." We can stand a story like this every Christmas...
...Recently the Executive Committee of the Student Council at their regular meeting discussed for the first time the question of giving a Junior dance. What may be the general sentiment of the Junior class I am not in a position to say. From what I am able to learn from some members of the class, I am inclined to think that when the question comes up for decision it will be apt to be favorable. From the point of view of an officer of the college, I see no objection to the dance, provided it is carried out in consonance...
...glorious thing to know that through the awful destruction and havoc which this war is effecting we are at least coming to know, to understand, and to appreciate our brothers of the South and that they are seeing us in another light than that of rank materialists. No shallow sentiment or diplomatic sophistry prompted this letter from the law students of Buenos Aires. It was the expression of opinion of a class of men who think and whose thought is all the more to be trusted because of their study. Such a sincere statement will be of great help...
Nevertheless, it is a condition and not a theory that confronts Kreisler today; there is a stirring of mass sentiment against even art that is Teutonic in origin, and managers who have contracted with the Austrian would stand to lose heavily if he were to hold to his rights. We are not yet at war with Austria. His claims would be hard to contest in our courts. He chooses to cut the Gordian Knot and ask all managers to release...