Word: opinion
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Today, thanks to the persistent enforcement of prohibitory measures by the faculty, and to the co-operation of the two halls and an intelligent, unbiased public opinion-without which the action of the faculty would have been ineffectual-organized chapters of the Greek Letter fraternities are, so far at least as we know, wholly extinct. Well may we congratulate ourselves that Princeton is free from the demoralizing influence of the division and discord which Greek Letter fraternities are certain to create. [Princetonian...
...matter for faculty decision, but we presume that the board of trustees has a complete jurisdiction in the matter and can force action on the part of the faculty. Princeton's attitude is naturally of the most interest to Harvard since her action cannot fail to influence student opinion here in the matter...
...matters of detail as e. g. to prohibit all contests with non-collegiate amateurs, and to insist upon regulating such a comparatively unimportant point (unimportant as concerns the effect of the resolutions in general) as the length of intercollegiate boat-races? At no point in this discussion has student opinion been directly consulted, at least in any such way as to affect the final decision and therefore we do not know that it s worth while to discuss this point now that everything is practically settled. Certainly in these points of detail the resolutions are most open to criticism...
...Princetonian contained a leading article condemnatory of the meeting and its action was sustained by a number of letters from the Alumni condemning boating. This policy was pursued by the paper through two numbers, and, as a result, and to afford the college another opportunity to express its opinion, the meeting this afternoon was called. Arguments were made at some length by speakers on both sides. Mr. Harlan, '84, the managing editor of the Princetonian, announced that the ground taken by the paper was an expression of his own views, rendered without consultation with his colleagues. It was also stated...
...last number of the Occident, of the University of California, until now a rabid anti-fraternity organ, are significant indications of the general breaking up of the hostile spirit that prevailed against college secret societies in many quarters some ten years ago. The reasons for this gratifying change of opinion are, in part, the almost total disappearance of those organizations that in the early days of college fraternities mistook the true purposes of those societies to be such as must lower the intellectual and moral tone of their members, the careful maintenance of a high standard of membership...