Word: sentimentality
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...exchanges. To Mr. Robinson we extend our sympathies, at the same time, however, urging him to remain both where he is so sadly needed and where he can doubtless command a good salary, if their college press is able to help him out." For real imbecility of language and sentiment we must commend this last sentence to students of English literature, while all readers will recognize the beauty of the motives that urge men to speak so politely of a gentleman who, for good and apparent reasons, declined to enter their service...
...spite of the urgent request of the class day committee, and in spite of the wishes of the whole senior class and the sentiment of the entire college, a member of the graduating class is endeavoring to induce the poorer members of '82 to sell their tickets to him, and to aid him in getting into his hands all that may remain unsold after the stated day. In this way he will be enabled to have a monopoly of the tickets, and dispose of them at whatever price or to whatever persons he may choose for his greatest pecuniary gain...
...says he can't but accept the world as he finds it, including a rope's end, as long as it is in fashion. We know that Thackeray was rather eccentric and we surely need no other evidence of his individuality of character than the expression of this very sentiment. For most people admire only the things that belong to antiquity, fancying that nothing can be really good until it has been dead and buried a hundred years...
...from one college to another, during their course, be established in this country, bears in the same general direction. Among graduates, the establishment of university clubs at many of the larger cities of the country is significant. A general tendency towards greater co-operation among college faculties indicates the sentiment that is growing in the matter. The recently established American School of Classical Studies at Athens, under the auspices of American colleges, is a noticeable example of this latter tendency. Perhaps the time will come some day for the great convention of college students to consider and debate matters...
There is a general local sentiment in favor of the sale of the Brooklyn Navy Yard...