Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...general challenge alone we can only say that such a challenge calls for an affirmative answer and that our college is unprepared to give, having already declined to row Pennsylvania upon a specific challenge. Finally, in the whole matter we are defended in our position not only by the opinion of most of the leading outside papers but also by that expressed by the Yale News and prominent boating men at Columbia...
...regret that the Yale News is not satisfied with the result of the recent conference on athletics at Harvard.-"Despite this conference," it says, "which was to bring about a better common understanding between the Harvard faculty and the students, we are of the opinion that the future action of the faculty is still 'one of those things no fellow can find out,' and we should not be surprised to find them issuing some such well-considered manifesto as that which they directed against foot-ball last fall. We most heartily congratulate ourselves that no meeting of representatives...
...closing my last article I quoted from the opinion of the faculty of the Berlin University, written in 1869, to the effect that the modern languages do not furnish a substitute for the ancient languages, "for, since as a rule the only thing aimed at in their study is a certain facility of use, they cannot serve in equal manner as an instrument of culture." In this quotation, I said, the keynote of the whole question was struck. We must keep the ancient languages in our colleges as they furnish the only successful instrument of culture. I do not believe...
Secondly, we formed our opinion of the course of this committee from the report current at the college that assurances had come from it that in case other colleges could not be got to agree to a prohibition of professional trainers, it would after a certain date permit the employment of a trainer for the Harvard nine on the like terms with other colleges...
...cease to require a Gymnasium training for its future functionaries." There is no doubt about the sincerity of the faculty who wrote this report, and the fact that this faculty, composed in a large degree of men whose special attention was given to purely scientific subjects, reiterated this opinion in such strong terms in 1880 adds great weight to the views of the classicists...