Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...recent tariff controversy between the professor and Mr. Evarts, are said, by a large majority of the students, to be without any foundation whatever. Prof. Sumner devotes himself to teaching political economy, they say, and makes no special effort to inculcate free trade doctrines, although always ready to express his views...
...pays no heed to any of them. There is only one thing which could do her any harm. That would be to get some professors who believed at the same time 'both sides' of a scientific question, or who, having scientific convictions, could not or dare not express them. She is safe - too safe. That is what is the matter...
...regret to say, there have been of late altogether too many for the good name of the college. The presumptuous ignorance and the appalling misconceptions displayed by the writer of this letter are truly astonishing, nay, one or two of his statements are absolutely false. He claims to express the views of a large number of loyal Harvard graduates in characterizing as childish the intricate negotiations which have been in progress for several months between Harvard and Yale; and yet he seems to be ignorant of the fact that these negotiations are carried on with the direct supervision and approval...
...forbidding its students to take part in inter-collegiate athletics for the future the Amherst faculty has passed resolutions "deploring the present demoralizing tendency of inter-collegiate athletic games, expressing the conviction that the cost of these games in time, money and energy expended brings no compensating advantage, and decreeing that the college shall cease to take part in them, whenever the present engagements have been fulfilled, or after the close of the present collegiate year." The resolutions also express their cordial approval of games and athletic contests which take place on the students' home grounds...
...premises, and asking that they be advised on that point. If the committee had full power in the matter, they could not imagine that a joint committee should be unable to reach a satisfactory conclusion, and they proposed to abide by their decision. But they wished to express the opinion that, if the joint committee were unable to make satisfactory arrangements without outside assistance, the race should be abandoned. The Yale men were of the opinion that the joint committee would be able to satisfactorily settle all ordinary questions, but recognize the fact that there might be some points...