Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their private devotions without any assistance. Students who are old enough for voluntary recitations are fully capable of responsibility on matters of religion. This, too, is generally recognized. The sole reason we have compulsory attendance at prayers, at present, is apparently because it is an old custom. Public sentiment is against it; the college is a unit against it; and yet not a move is made to put this bugbear down...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - The faculty refuses to grant us three days of grace, at the period of Thanksgiving and humiliation. The sentiment of the undergraduates seems to be in favor of a season of respite, during which we may replenish our wasted tissues. It will take at least, three days, to accomplish this end, the faculty to the contrary, notwithstanding...
...readers will not misunderstand what we are going to say. What we are going to advocate is not a step backward on the part of the students, but a corresponding step forward on the part of the Powers that Be-a recognition of the progress of student public sentiment...
...enforcing attention to their needs and grievances, the Powers themselves, have not outgrown the habit of kindly permitting the students to have needs and grievances. Gentlemen of the Faculty, Corporation, and Overseers, remember that now the college papers are the only expression you have of a student public sentiment that is growing every year more sensible, and more worthy of your consideration...
...fall on the ball every day for two months, but that makes no difference. They shed what coaching they get as a duck sheds water. What foot ball at Harvard needs is, more time, thought, theory, and experiment by men who are competent to coach ; a public sentiment that shall make a big, strong man lose caste by refusing to come out and play ; and, above all, surbordination among the players, willingness to do as they are told, to little matters that seem to them unimportant, to strive for "good form" in foot ball as if they were striving...