Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...dormitory at Brown College is to be built by Messrs. Stone and Carpenter. Miss Juliet Capulet's opinion as to the unimportance of names is certainly not borne out by the particular significance of these...
...their pursuing any course that lies between obsequiousness and arrogance. I recognize as plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would develop a character worth having, but at the same time I am convinced that to speak one's opinion effectively requires a degree of tact as well as determination that few possess. It is not eccentricity which is a matter of reproach at Harvard; it is the lack of manners and good sense...
...Crimson, as every one knows, besides giving the College news of the week, is intended to reflect undergraduate opinion on events which directly concern the students in general. We are perfectly well aware that, though they often make unpleasantly searching scrutiny into our conduct, the "powers that be" care little or nothing for our views in regard to any of their actions. Howbeit, the decision made by the Committee on Proctorships has not given unalloyed satisfaction to the undergraduate world. This committee has appointed two fresh Seniors (from another college) to the important, passably lucrative, and quite honorable position...
...Princetonian, in a paragraph on the Packer Quarterly, completely forgets the ordinary courtesy that one paper owes to another. We heartily approve of criticism; we ourselves intend to criticise, and are willing to be criticised in return. But criticism does not mean simply giving an opinion; it means also giving grounds for that opinion. We quote from the Princetonian...
...MEETING of the Boat Club was held last evening in Holden Chapel. The attendance was not large, and the exercises were marked by the usual unwillingness to give public expression to individual opinion on matters where it is most needed and most sought...