Word: sentimentality
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...student drinks at a bar; drunkenness is rare and disgraceful; the wine parties that Tom Brown used to attend are going out of fashion; college rows and scrapes are things of the past; the ancient brawls between town and gown are no more known; hazing is unheard of." The sentiment is that it is worse to be vulgar than to be wicked...
...betaken himself to intimidating his fellow-tradesmen. This man has threatened the most dire evils to Cambridge merchants who shall support or aid in any way the attempts of the students to assist themselves in the matter of purchases. "I will arouse," said he, "such a powerful public sentiment against the thing that any merchant who aids these fellows will regret it." There is no man in Cambridge who has made as much money from Harvard students as the very person who now is enraged at their efforts to supply themselves with needful articles at ordinary prices...
Unity says of the Harvard Total Abstinence League: "Its object is to create a stronger college sentiment against drinking. In a too apologetic tone, it seems to us, it promises not to be fanatic, to require no pledges, and not to weary the students with importunities. It will aim to make its lectures few but fine...
...always been as emphatically condemned by the college community as could be desired by the most ardent prohibitionist. That there has of late years been an observable tendency to a too great laxity of public opinion in this respect is perhaps the case ; and it may be that public sentiment needs to be reinforced and strengthened in the matter. If so, it is time that a decided stand and active measures be taken to work a reform. That such a plan as that proposed by the Harvard Total Abstinence League is altogether the best, we are not yet convinced...
...longer demand that these actions should be palliated and excused by their fellows; rather that decisive action should be taken against a longer continuance of this epidemic. The reform must commence from within and work its work by itself; the essential necessity for its success is a change of sentiment in such matters among college men. It is the duty of every college student, and every organ of college opinion, to speak and work for this change; only thus can it be secured...