Word: sentimentality
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...committee appointed to consider the matter in detail and to submit a report of their recommendations on the matter to the Secretary of the Association. This committee, composed of Thomas P. Beal '69, chairman, Arthur Adams '99 and Roger Ernst '03, have endeavored to ascertain the general sentiment of the graduates on this matter and the feasibility of the plan and will publish their report in the near future...
...five pieces in verse are as various in form as in subject. The author of "The Pickle of the Past," with a frank disclaimer of anything that makes for sentimentalism, gets down to the hardpan of wholesome boyish sentiment in a way that ought to delight his contemporaries; as it certainly will their fathers and uncles. "Cragan the Spalpeen" shows touches of Celtic with and spirit such as the author, if we may judge by his name, comes honestly by. The metre of line eleven halts badly and is easily amended. The author of "The Lecture-Tasters" is moderately funny...
...contemporary cartoonist. Many of these, like Gladstone, had long careers; while, on the other hand, such men as Randolph Churchill, destined in the light of his early progress to a great career, if not a Prime Ministership, were ruined through a single fatal speech or a sudden change of sentiment...
There is a tendency on the part of most men, Dr. Burnett said, to assume things on utterly unsatisfactory grounds. This tendency is manifested when we substitute our feelings of absurdity, religious sentiment, mere physical pleasure, or extreme delight in the beautiful, for reasoning thought. It shows itself also when our moral feelings destroy our true perspective of the beautiful, or when our feelings for the beautiful usurp our moral ideas...
SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "The Distribution of Socialistic Sentiment." Professor T. B. Veblen, of the University of Chicago. University...