Word: sentimentality
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More nearly than any other German play, unless it is Sudermann's "Heimath," of our immediate time, "Alt Heidelberg" is a universal, almost a classic piece. Even mistrustful Paris has seen it gladly, while American audiences long since warmed to its sentiment and its humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university...
...report of the Union Library Committee states that 76 volumes have disappeared from the shelves during the past half-year. This leakage is getting to be a perennial nuisance, and it is time that undergraduate sentiment put an end to it. It is charitable to suppose that the books were removed with the intention of returning them, which is not particularly dishonest, but merely against the rules. Men wishing to take books to other parts of the building are required to sign slips for this purpose, so that the unexplained disappearance of 76 volumes means that they were surreptitiously sneaked...
...strong link in the bonds of friendship and association which should closely unite Harvard and the city of Cambridge. On the other hand, when the University so sadly feels the need of a new tank, we can not help concurring with the author of the communication in the sentiment that "charity begins at home"; but in so far as contributing to the Cambridge tank does not interfere with the prospect of a new tank for the University, it is to be commended...
...meeting of the University Dining Council yesterday a proposal to permit smoking in Memorial Hall was considered. After discussion it was voted to test the sentiment of members by a ballot expressed as follows...
...wipe out the bitter fact that there ever was a division of our country, and also to express in some fitting way our esteem for those who fell in the Confederate service. It seems to me that Memorial Hall is a very inappropriate place to express this sincere sentiment...