Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...later the classes at Harvard were going on with their studies, Sir William Berkley wrote to England that he thanked God that there was no school or printing or publishing in Carolina, as such things only advanced evil and injured the people's loyalty. This shows the difference of opinion as to education in the Colonies...
...very important that every member of the college express his opinion on this subject, and all are strongly urged to come forward and be counted...
...action of that club. A college class is in a certain sense a unit, and can be employed as such; but it is only a unit by reason of a unanimity of sentiment and action in its members. When, therefore, the individuals that compose it become divided in opinion, a class can no longer be regarded as a unit. Now it is impossible that there are not a great number in every class that are decidedly opposed to the "dependent" Independent movement in the present campaign. It would, therefore, seem very unjust to such persons, as well as an absolute...
...deciding to join the Republican procession, we should only be following an old custom, and our doing so could have no political significance. On the other hand so pointed a change as taking part in the Democratic procession, would be taken as a sign of a great change of opinion at Harvard, and would be made much of in the Democratic press. This of course would be satisfactory to the Cleveland men here, but they can hardly expect that it would be highly relished by Republican students, a large number of whom would, I am sure, refuse to join...
...bring them in free of duty in the future. The Spirit of the Times says: "The Ascot Cup, won by J. K. Keene's Foxhall in England, and detained in the New York Custom House for non-payment of duties, has been released, the Acting Attorney-General giving an opinion that "the article in question having a similitude in material and quality and texture, and the use to which it may be applied, to a medal made of the same material-namely, gold and silver-is free of duty under certain sections...