Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...derisively calls his book "An Essay on Human Understanding," without the article. Nowhere is his satire more crushing or his humor more delightful than in his chapters on innate ideas. In a masterly way he states the arguments so that they confute themselves. He shows that his real opinion is that all ideas are innate, and exposes the fallacy of believing any to be derived from sensation or reflection. Here, as well as elsewhere in his book, he is in strict harmony with Descartes. In fact, he seems to have written to simplify and explain his great master; and though...
...eagerness with which about one fourth of the Senior Class embraced the opportunity offered them to obtain instruction in elocution is worthy of notice, as it is a very good indication of the opinion of the student mind of the value of such instruction. The importance of elocution is gravely questioned by some educators, who claim - and reasonably so for the most part, it seems to us - that when one has anything to say, he will be able to say it, and most forcibly, in his own natural manner, and that therefore all artificial helps are useless...
...spite of the familiar picture of the moral dangers which environ the student, there is no place so safe as a good college during the critical passage from boyhood to manhood. The security of the college commonwealth is largely due to its exuberant activity. Its public opinion, though easily led astray, is still high in the main. Its scholarly tastes and habits, its eager friendships and quick hatreds, its keen debates, its frank discussions of character, and of deep political and religious questions, - all are safeguards against sloth, vulgarity, and depravity. Its society, and not less its solitudes, are full...
...certainly can be supported by arguments enough to remove all charge of any arbitrary dealing. That no gate-money shall be taken on College grounds may seem to some an unreasonable rule, which will deprive the Base-Ball Club of a much-needed revenue. The President is of opinion that the support of College clubs of any kind by charges of this nature puts them and the University in a false light before the public. By receiving pay, they put themselves in the position of professionals. This applies to Pierian and Glee Club concerts as well as to the ball...
...conclusion, we would call the attention both of the Freshmen and the higher classes, to the fact that such conduct as would be expected from boys is not that which is hoped for from cultivated young men. We print below a Circular from the Dean, which exactly expresses our opinion on the subject of hazing; and we have a word to say in relation to the new Commons in Alumni Hall. Let howls and bread-fights become things of the past; and let allowance be made for the jars which must occur in the working of so new and vast...