Word: sentimentality
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...last ten years Dr. Taylor has been a medical missionary in the Honan province of North China, the province in which the anti-foreign sentiment has been peculiarly bitter. For some time he worked near Pao-ting-fu, and it was here that the recent Boxer eruptions broke with greatest violence. Dr. Taylor has received six degrees from British and French Medical societies, is a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England...
...great danger in this gospel of emotion is that we shall mistake sentimentality for true feeling. Sentiment is always reserved and unconscious; sentimentalism is self-conscious and shallow, with an eye only for the picturesque. Emotion must not be overdone, but without it our lives would be cold and spiritless...
...case. That great aggregations of capital have in them elements of peril there can be no doubt. As President Hadley has said. "The true medical treatment in the body politic as in the human body, is the physiological one to create a public spirit and a public sentiment which shall be adequate to deal with the new conditions...
...better things should be expected in the Advocate than such a story as "Only Twice." The incident which the story develops seems hardly possible in the mind of the ordinary undergraduate, and any possible merit in construction certainly does not justify such a lengthy display of cheap and unhealthy sentiment. The poetry is better than usual. "Saint Catherine of the Oratory," by B. Fortescue, moves easily, and is simple, almost too simple, in fact. The other verses, "Street Songs," by W. Stevens, are of a higher level. The writer shows good dramatic power, having even in this light verse...
...Back of this promise was the sentiment of the American people as expressed by the public press all over the country. Back of it was our constant declaration to the world that American expansion meant the carrying to less fortunate people of those principles of liberty, equality and justice for which this republic has stood since its foundation...