Word: sentimentality
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...scorns religion, who refuses to believe anything religious that cannot be proved to his intellect as a problem in mathematics is proved. History and religion can show this man nothing more wonderful than what he can find in his own intellect. We cannot trust our intellect or our sentiment alone to give us the whole broad meaning of religion, but we must open our whole being, and try to receive as much of religion as we can. He who does not feel the spiritual life is dead to the richest experience given to humanity...
Another thing which seems to be brought out by the election is that the true sentiment of the class is thoroughly opposed to the unsavory ward politics of which we have had such an overdose. A CONVARTED PETITIONER...
...coaches had succeeded in defeating Yale we should have heard little or nothing about favoritism, as a matter of fact, the feeling I have referred to was much less pronounced after the Yale game than it had been just after the Pennsylvania game, and the change in sentiment was due to the fact that the eleven played better against Yale than any one had expected...
...Associations of India, and of Harvard men hereafter to be sent out and to work under the auspices of various Christian agencies; (4) the sending out of men who will bear the spirit of the University into their work and who will rejoice to feel themselves sustained by the sentiment of the University community; (5) and finally, by all these means, the fostering of the spirit of missions within the University itself...
...There is some question as to whether or not the quoted editorial "states the attitude which most members of the Law School hold in regard to the proposed change of degrees," --a question which the forth-coming petition is to answer. Undue weight must not be given to the sentiment of the meeting reported as of the third year class, for it was not such in fact. It was a meeting of those third year men--by on means a majority of the class--who favored or opposed the proposed change. The sentiment of that meeting cannot yet truly...