Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Altogether, the Digest's returns of over a million and a half votes have been a feature of no little interest in the pre-convention weeks; and have been in some ways fully as illuminating as to the course of public sentiment as some of the lightly attended official primaries. --Boston Herald
Cornell must keep her weather eye on the fluctuations of undergraduate sentiment, so that she may bring the Honor System in on a tide so strong that no undercurrents can wreck its course. --Cornell...
...question, Would Cornell know what to do in such a case? It is perfectly clear that the so-called system cannot exist and thrive merely on the threat of expulsion or social ostracism for violation: it can only live when the great mass of undergraduate and particularly upperclass sentiment puts a ban on dishonesty, when Cornell students shall look upon acts of deceit with just as much disfavor as do students of the University of Virginia, for instance. There is no difference in the type of student, at the two universities certainly. Our American democratic spirit grants the First Families...
Henslow's lies, the clever satire on the average American love of scandal versus the noble ideals of the French, the breath of sentiment introduced from the pages of Dante Gabriel Rossetti all go to make the play something more than a comedy...
Only a few days ago Congress itself passed a resolution recognizing the Armenian Republic and authorizing the dispatching of forces to the Black Sea. If this resolution is to be taken as a real expression of Congressional sentiment, it is only reasonable to hope that it will be followed by more active measures of assistance. The Armenian mandate, it is true, would involve expense and the outlay of much administrative skill. But the skill, we hope, is not wanting in this country; and the expense and trouble will be amply repaid after the establishment of a stable Armenian government...