Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kendall and his associates are interested primarily in the moral effect of their crusade. As far as immediate profits are concerned testimonial campaigns have been almost universally successful. They are an obvious and easy solution to the problem of what-to-say-about-a-product. Yet should a pronounced sentiment against testimonials develop, originators of advertising ideas may pay more attention to What's What and less attention...
...announcement that Princeton has established a department of world finance is another blow to the venerable sentiment that the college exists only to instill the spirit of humanism. The introduction of the study of international commercial relations clearly indicates to what extent the demand for practical education has developed. Princeton's project is to bring theory and reality into conjunction by dealing with such problems as the collection of international debts, American foreign trade expansion, international tariff, and the need of a world-wide system of currency. Such a proposition lends impetus to the already popular theory of solving world...
Dismissing all arguments based upon sentiment and tradition, the former as irrelevant with the far-reaching ramifications of the entire House plan, the latter as vulnerable due to the brief existence of the Freshman dormitories and the absolute lack of a Senior monopoly on the Yard dwellings, the paramount argument in opposition to moving the Freshmen is based upon the success of the present system of Freshman dormitories. This success, however, is purely accidental, the dormitories having been built more with an eye for such a plan as Mr. Harkness has made possible in conjunction with a desire to disintegrate...
...Among graduates, sentiment is almost without dissent in favor of the House Plan. The Executive Committee of the Council of Associated Harvard Clubs, numbering among its members men from all over the country, the other day took action unanimously approving the plan...
Into Congress last week overflowed the financial argument between Federal Reserve Board and Wall Street (TIME, Feb. 18). A mingled outburst of oratory, ethics, provincialism and a little economics was the result. The prevailing sentiment was strongly against the speculator. Since, however, the very Senators and Representatives who were most inclined to view Wall Street as the heart of the money octopus also regarded the Federal Reserve System as at least a tentacle of the same monster, the banker was scolded while the broker was flayed...