Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seen players who get over the ground with an agility, and charge their opponents with a hardihood, perfectly astounding for their years. To watch some of these veterans limping out of a furious "maul," or rolling on the muddy turf, would give a stranger, no doubt, a high opinion of the vivacity and pluck of our countrymen ; but to one of philosophical bent-such a one, for example, as Mr. Max O'Rell (who has indeed branded the game as "fit only for savages")-the spectacle might also have a ludicrous side. He might feel inclined to exclaim with...
Some one disfigured the Chapel and the Harvard statue, night before last, by painting in large letters on them the class-name of '87. We have to believe that these acts of vandalisn were committed by '87 men. We have a better opinion of the class. Generally a man whose wit is of such magnitude that he is capable of a deed of this sort, does not long care to display his takent here at Harvard. He finds that his fellow-students do not appreciate fun of that kind. If he does continue, however, in these sorry exbibitions...
...necessarily a weak or poor one. Harvard, with a regular experienced coach and early accessibility to the water, has indisputable advantages in acquiring the art of rowing and should always be able to turn out crews which shall do honor to the college. Capt. Storrow is of opinion that a light, active crew, if the men are all strong and healthy, can be made as effective as a heavy crew. In this opinion he is supported by the actual tests and measurements of Dr. Sargent. It is found that the heaviest men are by no means the strongest. This statement...
...Yale the opinion seems to be that the contest with Princeton will be very close and exciting...
...behaved like one." Mr. Blank- the real gentleman- the immediate predecessor in one's room, is generally discovered afterwards not to have displayed toward the bed-maker the extraordinary quality with which she persists in crediting him; indeed he very often turns out to have had a very low opinion of that amiable lady's character as developed by the work she did, or is supposed to have done...