Word: sentimentality
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...dinner Wednesday evening a vote will be taken of the members at the general tables at Memorial Hall, that the board of directors may ascertain the sentiment of those members in regard to the change in seating arrangements now being considered by the board...
...needed. The shortness of the service will add to its impressiveness, and the attendance of the Grand Army post will bring home the significance of the occasion more effectively than could anything else. Professor Norton has been very kind in consenting to take part in the services. His sentiment for the observance of the day is so strong and sincere that it must communicate itself to every one who hears his words...
...true question is of the reality and validity of religious sentiment. All religious forms are necessarily and confessedly symbolic; they are representative of something other than what their mere outer appearance would suggest; thus it is only the spirit of the heart and soul which gives the Church and Liturgy their true signification. Until the symbols are explained, they serve merely to hide their true meaning. Thus the relation of man to the infinite and unknown of life must be understood. Man, living in the known world, can tell nothing of the infinite, but upon coming to the blank wall...
...would cause and which, perhaps, she could be spared altogether. The circumstances were laid before the Boston papers and, without exception, they consented to make no mention of the young man's name on the following morning. It was a subordination of business enterprise to humane sentiment highly to be esteemed. Any deed that tends in the least to mitigate the heavy affiction awakens in us all the warmest gratitude. In the name of the University we thank the Boston press for their kind consideration...
...attempt out of pure languidness; when he refuses to do anything unless he feels confident that he himself will be chiefly benefited; when, in a word, he chooses to indulge his own whim, rather than aid the University, then he is contemptible. We should like to see a sentiment here that would stigmatize every such...