Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...none toward better actions. The failure, however, is merely because they are not prayers. They are an attempt to unite the worship of God with a police regulation. Such a confusion of acts of devotion with affairs of ordinary college discipline must inevitably destroy in us all feelings of sentiment, and reverence. Under the present system we always have a lurking idea that we are worshipping only the Dean and the Faculty. Thus compulsion takes away the one element which can make prayers helpful. Instead of doing good to a certain number, they benefit no one. Therefore, in consideration...
...Moral sentiment is of very slow growth." To this aphorism there are few exceptions. But it seems to us that in the case of our own University and its students, there has been a great change within a short time in its moral sentiment as applied to many things. The childish method of going through college with as little work as possible, cutting as many recitations as is allowed, because it is "manly" so to do, hazing, etc.; all this is now done away with, because of the growth and education of public sentiment. Yet all this change from...
...following is copied from a student's notes of one of Prof. Norton's recent lectures, - "Moral sentiment is of very slow growth. A few days since Mr. Lowell was speaking to a body of students, 20 or 30 in number, in regard to civil service reform. He spoke with great earnestness in respect to the reform as having a moral element, as being of no less importance than the old anti-slavery contest, in some aspects, perhaps, even of greater consequence than that. When he spoke in this way in regard to the moral principle involved in civil service...
...difficult to understand. At last a man has been detected in this practice, and it is said, has been expelled from the University. While it is far from the wishes of the CRIMSON to try in any way to palliate the offence, we must agree with a growing college sentiment, which says that such punishment is too severe for the crime committed. To impose the same penalty for this as attends the most flagrant offences against morality and the college discipline, seems a trifle unjust...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - Now that the Monthly has been criticised favorably from a literary point of view, it may be well to look at it from a purely sentimental standpoint. The Harvard Monthly is supposed to represent to a certain extent the feelings of the college, and if it cuts itself entirely loose from public sentiment it will perish. Now the writer maintains that there is no such morbid, pessimistic feeling among the students of Harvard, nor even among the literary men of the college, as this last number would seem to imply. In every issue, there has been...