Word: sentimentality
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...plan provides for the withdrawal of all supervision of the faculty of the honesty of examinations and of other work in the college, and leaves the question of honesty to the sense of honor of each individual and to the public sentiment of the college as a whole. Each student, on entering college, is to sign a card showing his acceptance of the system. At the end of each examination paper, the student is to certify that he has complied with the requirements, but no one supervises him to see that he has done so. There is no provision...
...placed in a large stream of college life flowing in a larger channel than any smaller group they meet today." And then there is the matter of graduating in three or three and a half years, In addition to President Lowell's observations, one other argument, to sentiment, may be advanced--the pleasure and value of Senior year in the Yard as testified to by the classes who have known...
General Wood believes that "the best chance to have a good peace is to have a good army." There are many citizens fully as patriotic who believe that still better chances for peace will ensue when there is a nation-wide sentiment against all armies, good...
...Harvard lead the colleges of the country in creating that sentiment. W. B. HARRIS...
...lately planted trees in the Yard is due to the pernicious influence of the famous but infested elms, the elms with all their halos of romantic glory should go. It is only a question of time now before they will all have disappeared; and the protests of sentiment against an immediate, rather than a lingering removal, are of little weight when the restoration of the Yard's beauty is at question...