Word: sentimentality
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...years Harvard men have not made as much of Memorial Day as they should. Harvard's participation in the Civil War and the record of her sons who fell in it, are things which ought always to be kept proudly in remembrance. To the years of the war more sentiment naturally attaches than to any other period in the history of the University; yet students are apt to forget the significance of the tablets erected in Memorial Hall and the real closeness of their own connection with the men who are there commemorated...
...innovation appeared on the front page of Wednesday's News, which was filled with a number of letters from prominent graduates of Yale written in answer to the question "What is Yale's greatest need." The prevailing sentiment in them all seemed to be that the greatest need is an increased fund for general university purposes. One letter says that if Yale is to become primarily strong the Corporation must be re-organized since the business interests of the University should be attended to by business men and not by clergymen. The News says editorially in summing everything...
...reason for the action, I am informed," he said, "is the intense excitement and rivalry which has existed for some time between the two universities, and the sentiment which has been growing for the past few years in relation to the baseball contests between the two institutions. It is not intended, I understand, to cripple Pennsylvania, nor to be a final cessation of athletic contests between the two universities, but simply to be a suspension of athletic interests for a time in the hope that the present high feeling may be moderated...
...sentiment of the whole University will be one of most hearty approval of the selection of Colonel Winslow as chief coach of the baseball team. The helpful influence which can be exerted on any form of athletics by the constant supervision of a competent coach has often been proved. That the nine has now secured such a man is beyond the slightest doubt. Colonel Winslow's past record as a baseball player and captain, together with his later experience in organizing men, mark him out as peculiarly worthy to be entrusted with the chief control of Harvard baseball interests. Harvard...
...suggested. We did not do this, and a challenge was sent to the Yale Freshman Union. It was a few days ago that we had news of the way this challenge was received at Yale. The Freshman Union there postponed final decision in the matter until the general sentiment of the class with regard to the desirability of a debate could be ascertained...