Word: sentimentality
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...speaking for Yale, points out that the intercollegiate athlete is physically away ahead of the average student (a strong argument in itself for intercollegiate athletics), and that by more general participation the physical vigor of the whole student body will be increased. The Daily Princetonian, voicing the Princeton undergraduate sentiment, says: "We do not believe intercollegiate contests to be harmful, but rather a most beneficial and necessary factor of college life. They are essential to the welfare of a college community. But they have one serious defect in that they are not far reaching enough. . . . Our suggestion is that...
With Harvard, Yale and Princeton all working toward this end, and with Harvard already strong on the intracollegiate side, there is little cause for worry. When sentiment is general, results are inevitable...
Starting with the great reform wave, which swept over New England in 1832, Mr. Churchill traced the gradual political reform. The sentiment began here and there, and, after many failures, swept from state to state, until now it now it has become national. This reformation is due to the new type of men who have entered politics. In former days it was a bore to go to a political meeting where nobody was listened to or respected, but now the young man has stepped in and changed matters...
...Further resolved, that it is the sentiment of this organization solidly to support the candidates of the Republican Party as nominated in the National Convention in July...
...most important aspects of the work of the Idaho Institute is its training of Mormon boys and girls. Situated in a district that is strongly Mormon in sentiment, the institute is gradually conquering the prejudice that was once strong against it, and is turning away from Mormonism a large proportion of the younger generation