Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...excitement which was felt in the decisive Yale-Harvard base ball game last June is well illustrated by the following: "The opinion was well-nigh universal that for intense, sustained and towards the last positively painful interest, the game has been unequalled in the last ten years. In the eighth inning when Harvard had three men on the bases and only one man out, and needed only two runs to tie the game, the suppressed excitement was almost unbearable. I saw graduates of the 'fifties and 'sixties around me who were so nervous that they had to sit down...
...egotistical. We certainly thought that we could defeat Dartmouth and events proved the correctness of our views. Dartmouth certainly had hard luck in some of her games and deserves a better position than the one she occupies in the intercollegiate baseball association. To term, however, an honest expression of opinion egotistical, and an opinion, which facts prove was perfectly true, sounds very much like a childish complaint. Can the defeats at the hands of Amherst and of Yale have ruffled the temper of the Dartmouth...
...Among the advantages next year will be the books ready at the opening of the term, the new furniture scheme described in their circular, and the greater ease with which foreign text books will be procured. The expenses and estimates for next year necessitate, in the opinion of the officers, the raising of the annual fee from $2.00 to $2.50. but to compensate for this the margin of profit on goods bought will be even smaller than before. Everything seems to point to a year of unexampled prosperity for the Co-operative Society...
...Beta Kappa. Harvard Chapter. Business meeting. Boylston Hall, west lecture room, 10 A. M. Oration by Prof. R. C. Jebb of Glasgow. Subject : "Ancient Organs of Public Opinion." Sanders Theatre...
...years, and is said to have produced most satisfactory results. It is greatly to be regretted that the other great American universities have been unable to follow this unique example set by the University of Michitgan, for the most prominent authorities on educational matters in this country are of opinion that it is only a national preparatory school system, intimately connected with the prominent universities, such as is exemplified in the German gymnasia, that will bring American univeristies to that unequalled state of excellence to which German universities have attained...