Word: sentimentality
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...matter of Sunday exercise, the University must conform to the sentiment of the community. For a number of years most of the boat clubs on the Charles have been open for rowing on Sunday, without objection from anyone. There seems to be no reason why the Newell and Weld boat clubs should not be open as well. Of course there would be no organized coaching of any sort; but singles, pair-oars, and even larger crews might be allowed upon the river, as sail-boats and motor boats are allowed on the harbor. An opportunity for the most valuable exercise...
Tennis is a different proposition. The general sentiment seems to be against it as a form of Sunday exercise; and as long as the sentiment exists, it must be regarded...
...that he be placed on probation, injuries thereby the best interests of the undergraduates in all cases, and if he is thus debarred from representing the University in any capacity, does an additional injury to all who are interested in its reputation; and it is also believed that the sentiment against probation should be strengthened among the undergraduates as far as possible...
...Farley '99 and Coach P. D. Haughton '99, it was unanimously voted, "that a committee consisting of at least three undergraduates and two graduates, with power to add to their numbers, be appointed by the Executive Committee to investigate the best methods for simulating the sentiment against probation; that for this purpose the Committee consult with the officers of the University and such other persons as it may deem best; and that this Committee report its recommendations to the next meeting of the Council...
...untrained men for the tasks of soldiery from their work which will result in incommensurable good to the state. What we may now hastily interpret as patriotism may only be an artificial excitement and a bubbling over of youth's strong and ever present love of adventure for such sentiment, Dean Briggs quoted as a remedy Mr. Gilbert's lines in "Iolanthe": "On fire that glows with heat intense, I turn the hose of common sense...