Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recent survey conducted at Columbia shares a unanimous sentiment among national leaders in public life, industry, and education favoring the re-instatement of German in the secondary curriculum. If the elimination of Germanic studies was a foolish manifestation of war-time hysteria, to allow public prejudice and the negligence of school authorities to block its return is but a perfect example of the old story, cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...
...policy of the Voo Doo in publishing the Back Bay number, that they should come from other students and not from the Institute authorities saved the day for those who place faith in the responsibility of student leadership. Thus censorship comes about as the natural reaction of public sentiment and is an as inherent part of the freedom of student activities as the right to freely criticize policies of university administration...
...Empey's "Over the Top" and Collins' "Outwitting the Hun," that gave him vicariously--and diluted--the thrills of combat. Such books stood on the seven-day shelves of American libraries, and though they protested stoutly and even violently their fairness, they had their little part in arousing the sentiment of 1917. As books, they were fitting for the toy-soldier age. Private Suhren is a definitely more matrue volume than these, and while it does not provide the grisly enjoyment that fills the soul on reading of a well-executed atrocity, it excels in honest naturalness, and reels...
...battle royal between undergraduates and alumni has set the Cornell campus agog. When a distinguished group of the latter faction recently met in take measures for the regeneration of football at Cornell, they were surprised to find the general sentiment of the student body opposed to their efforts. The Cornell Sun explained the attitude of the students by saying that "the undergraduates don't have any athletic teams any more. They belong to the alumni and the big-salaried coach...
...very nature of the case a great many of the new minorities belong to Germany racially, and here again one has to deal with highly cultured elements which are unwilling to accept oppression without remonstrance. Leaving aside the German element in Alsace-Lorraine, which is largely French in sentiment, the most important German minorities are those in southern Tyrol, under Italian domination, in Czecho-slovakia, in Polish Silesia, and in the region, of the Polish corridor. In the treaties by which the new states of eastern Europe were recognized or established, provisions were made for the interests of minorities. Practically...