Word: sentimentality
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...politic plan is to run the elevated road up to Boston and then endeavor to get it inside the limits. As long as the horsecar service in the city is as good as now, it will be difficult to inaugurate the elevated railway scheme within the city proper. Public sentiment here is undoubtedly against it, and the only place where there is an immediate demand for an elevated road is between Cambridge and Boston...
...drawback, and except when defeated by want of means or other special circumstances, never fail to get it for their sons. All Scotchmen are not graduates, but in theory the Scotchman - who, be it remembered, is not led away on the subject either by flunkyism or sentiment, or any strong wish that his sons should have an easy time - holds decidedly that they ought to be, that it would be well if they could be, and that if they were the work would be better and not worse done. And he quotes with some energy the fact that the richest...
...which by quiet discussion shall prevent those shameful out-breaks. "Let the college papers," he continues, "suggest and advise such an organization and fix upon the details of its management." However useful such an organization might, in theory, seem to be, its practical benefits would be very small. College sentiment, expressed through the columns of the college press, has already done much to stop those periodical freshmania outbreaks which formerly seemed to spread like an epidemic among all the colleges at certain times of the year, and that sentiment will assuredly, in time, prevent those outbreaks entirely...
...whole trouble arises from the fact that the Spirit of the Times has made a "mountain of a mole-hill" in assuming that a few remarks let fall by individual students represent the sentiment of the entire body of students of Harvard and Yale...
...paper belonging to the association, will satisfy a long-felt need in college journalism. The advantages of such an institution will be more especially felt at a time when a matter of inter-collegiate interest is under discussion, and when it may be desirable or interesting to learn the sentiment of other colleges with respect to the matter. It is true that this function is partially fulfilled by a system of exchanges, but where most of the college papers are published weekly, biweekly and monthly, it is not at all times convenient to wait for one, two or three weeks...