Word: sentimentality
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...unanimity shown at the meeting tonight, is keen indication that popular sentiment is strongly in favor of absolute clarity in the management of athletics in general, which presages well for the future of sport at New Haven
...peace that it would bring is based upon compulsion and not sentiment. Such peace is in accordance with the logical development of civilization. Men first settled their disputes by personal combat, and law and order are now maintained only by the employment of the police power. Communities, tribes, cities, and petty states, which formerly fought one another, now live in peace under the force of a stronger national organization. The final step alone remains, international co-operation, which, however, cannot be expected to come at once or completely...
...result of this general sentiment the Student Council has adopted a resolution in favor of organizing a company of students for military drill supplemented by lectures on military tactics. A committee of graduates, law school men, and undergraduates has been appointed to take general charge of inaugurating the system...
...militant radicalism or even or more militant conservatism that would send Paris students out into the streets with a Call-laux as-sas-sin! 'or tie up an Italian town for the sake of Italia Irredenta. Even the war, though it has called out a fund of antimilitarist sentiment in the American colleges, still tends to be spoken of in terms of an international sporting event. "Who will win? "is the question here...
...Mitchell also contributes an essay. "Montaigne and the Modern Age" is a dignified defence of the spirit of scepticism. Cynicism and scepticism figure in this issue of the Monthly College men seem at times to fear sentiment and as a result they are apt to plunge to the other extreme. But Mr. Mitchell's essay is not of this type. His arguments and ideas are thoroughly sincere and well worked out in a spirit of toleration much needed in these troublous times...