Word: sentimentality
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...college societies, those consisting of students who come here to work and not to dawdle." Professor Moore contributes "The Study of the Fine Arts in Universities and Colleges." It is a very interesting article explaining that to undergraduates the Fine Arts should be taught only to "awaken a sentiment of beauty in the minds of educated men, and to lay the foundations for a discriminating judgment with regard to works of art." Anything beyond this is rather the work of a professional school. Colnnel Higginson's "Address of Welcome to the Harvard and Yale Football Teams" is printed in full...
...evident that the winter must have passed his life in the seclusion of his own conceit, if he thinks that such a sentiment has a glimmer of truth in it. The people with whom such flippant and inane flashes of wit have any weight at all, are those who have never heard of Harvard, or have received their knowledge of her through just such unreliable sources as the writer of the passage quoted above. A man who knows Harvard as she is would never sacrifice his reputation for intelligence and fairmindedness so far as to make himself responsible for such...
...number, "the Rewards of the Republic," is a strong and entertaining story. The best thing in the number is the editorial on Dr. Peabody. It is seldom our pleasure to read in a college paper an article at once so charmingly written and so expressive or the deepest sentiment of the University. The poetry of the number, "Wanderer" and "The Gull," is good, though the former is somewhat obscure in its meaning...
...communication with regard to the New Harvard Union seems to express just the sentiment that everybody will recognize as the proper one, with relation to the new movement in the way of debate. The object of the society is not to form an "aristocracy" of debaters, but to create interest in public speaking such as ought to be strong in every college. Something had to be done and those members of the old Union, who really had the reputation of the college and the improvement of college speakers at heart, agreed upon the present plan as the best one possible...
However, the point in question is not the success of the present method; it is rather one of self respect. If the men will not of themselves institute a reform, college sentiment should demand that the Board of Directors take the matter in hand and, if necessary, adopt strong measures to remedy the evil...