Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have had no small reasons for so believing-; but that we believe that there is some similarity, and that the sole faculty-government, the oligarchy, is doomed to die sooner or later, just as all purely tyrannical and oligarchic governments have died heretofore. As times and civilization advance, sentiment and liberality of thought also advance. College students are getting to be looked upon, not as brainless, careful boys, but rather as men interested in themselves and others, in their education, and in all that concerns their education. Indeed, there is actually conceded to them a certain degree of intellect...
...collectors for the Tennis Association have already begun their duties, and report that the sentiment of the students is most favorable toward the new plans of the society...
...college papers, as the exponents of student thought, most assuredly ought to be represented. For the influence which they exert is undoubtedly very great. The editors are men who are, by necessity. better acquainted with college matters in general, and better fitted to judge of the sentiment of the students, than any other men who might be selected. And in order to avoid any misunderstanding in interpreting to the students at large the decisions of the Conference Committee-which, of course, must be done through the columns of the papers-it would be a matter of the highest importance that...
...discussed; the four class delegates, the three editors from the papers, the four representatives from the athletic organizations, and the four students invited for their especial interest in the particular question, would give a two-thirds majority in the conference. The other third would be representatives of the sentiment of those not particularly interested in athletics, and this would be an exceedingly useful element. If, on the other hand, the question had no reference to college sports, it will be seen by glancing at the table that the athletic representatives would number scarcely one third of the committee. Moreover...
There seems to be a general and growing sentiment among the students that the German department is by no means what it ought to be. President Eliot is known everywhere as a strenuous advocate of the modern theory of education which recognizes the fact that the usefulness of a knowledge of the living languages is of more value than the superior discipline which, it is claimed, the classics give; and it has been through his influence that the curriculum of the freshman year has been so changed as to make French or German practically the only prescribed study...