Word: sentimentality
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...report, it appears that the interest in athletics is growing steadily at Harvard, and that the Harvard faculty desire to foster and encourage that department. The faculty at Cambridge can not be censured for over-zealous support of the athletic element in the colleges, and this expression of their sentiment, coming from the President, must have some influence. - Amherst...
...athletics, which is seen at all large schools for women, is rightly regarded as one of the most promising signs of the times; and there are many who predict that the day will come when the active woman of sense and strength will entirely supersede the languid doll of sentiment and fancy...
...that many of them are not also very successful. The excellent rhythm and the charming sincerity are characteristics that are always attractive, partly because at the present time at least, they are rather uncommon. Some of these poems suggest real ability and poetic taste, Although in places the poetic sentiment seems to have been sacrificed to rhyme and metre and although many of the subjects can hardly be called new or said to be treated with any conspicuous originality, yet few will say that the author has made a mistake by going into print...
...rowed by them without seriously increasing the strain and expense already necessary, we think that a race with Yale would be a pleasant and even desirable addition to our present inter-collegiate contests. But we hope a meeting of the class will be called that the general sentiment may be learned. The precedent of a Harvard Yale freshman race at New London should not be hastily established, and opinions should be freely expressed by all interested, as well by the prominent boating men of the college as by members...
...took Harvard poetry as his model. Why, take but our little Callanan Courant, with its troop of girls bubbling with merry verses of pleasure and gayety, or flowing at times with the easy pensiveness of that semi philosophical leisure that gives an attractive weirdness to a commonplace sentiment, or take the Ann Arbor Chronicle, with its keen appreciation of the humorous in verse, with its true, natural unforced sentiment, with its unborrowed thought, and if Harvard can show any productions excelling these in average she will do well. 'Imagination killed a man,' and we fear that Harvard has a great...