Word: sentimentality
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...University Club. An effort to get an expression of undergraduate opinion on the project resulted in a few indifferent criticisms. As no enthusiasm was awakened, the matter, for the time was dropped. Since then a more lively feeling seems to have arisen. At various gatherings of students a strong sentiment of dissatisfaction with present social conditions and eagerness for some practicable reform has been apparent. The most practicable plan yet presented is that of a University Club. Every one knows, however, that such a club, to be of any service, must be backed by the hearty enthusiasm of every...
...very glad to publish today's communication on the subject of the University Club, and especially commend that portion of it which urges a vigorous expression of undergraduate opinion. We repeat our belief that undergraduate sentiment once aroused from its too habitual lethargy, will emphatically favor the plan. As the writer of the communication says, once that opinion is forcibly expressed, the graduates will be quick to take the mafter...
...properly been called an act of vandalism, of which I am heartily ashamed, and which has cost me my dearest ambition. I painted the score upon the pedestal of the statue of John Harvard, but I never intended it for "desecration," although I now feel that the student sentiment was just...
...members of the committee the thanks of the whole University are due for their satisfactory performance of a most distasteful duty. Their success has been a service to Harvard which can hardly be over-estimated. It has accomplished two things. It has shown to the outside world that college sentiment is done, once for all, with mere dissatisfied toleration of such stupid behaviour, even on the part of the most unsophisticated members of the University; and that, in the future, it will handle like offenders without gloves...
Therefore the committee asks that every man who has any information whatever will give it to them, for they believe it to be the sentiment of the University that every man ought to do so, with the understanding that such information will be confidential...