Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undergraduates there assembled must yield and put themselves in accord with the committee and refuse to accept the resignation, or, if they persist in maintaining their present position, which seems more than probable, they must do the reverse, ask the committee to give way themselves in deference to the express desire of the under-graduates. If the committee cannot see their way clear to yield on this issue and still remain as future advisers to the student body, why the time has certainly come to tender them our hearty thanks for their past services and accept their resignations. This done...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: -We think we express the opinion of a large portion of the undergraduates of Harvard University, when we say that Mr. Kimball's action in the mass meeting in Holden, on Wednesday evening, in persisting in sending to Yale a letter signed by two other prominent foot ball men, declaring in favor of Yale, in the Yale-Princeton game, was not only utterly uncalled for, but also contrary to the well known sentiments of the college...
...Kimball should not forget his responsible position as the head of the foot ball interest, and publicly express private opinions utterly at variance with the sentiments of a large body of Harvard students...
...action in question may be somewhat peculiar, but it must be remembered that every person has a right to his own personal opinion, and has, moreover, a right to express this opinion in a meeting which is open to a general discussion of the subjects in hand. The private opinion, however, of a prominent public person will necessarily carry much more weight than the opinion of a private person could ever carry. A private person, as long as he holds his public position, cannot divest himself of a certain degree of authority which is naturally associated with his position. This...
...compulsory chapel-going, although, we confess, it would be a kindness to the writer to suppress it. When the writer grows older, he will be far better able to judge of the effects of our present system that he is now, and he will then be prepared to express an intelligent opinion concerning it. He is mistaken in supposing that it is only the men who "indulge in expensive sprees, and go to bed regularly at 2 P. M." as he somewhat vulgarly puts it, that wish to do away with compulsory prayers. On the contrary, it is the desire...