Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Darwin's essay on "Instinct," which has recently been published, has awakened but little discussion. The general opinion seems to agree with Prof. Huxley, in that it is of very little importance, and had better have been left unpublished...
...University of Pennsylvania is of the opinion that it has an eitht-oared crew which can beat the crews of Yale and Harvard. Having expressed that opinion in 1882 and again in 1883 by challenging each of these universities, and neither of them accepting the challenge, it now challenges any college crew and announces that, if its challenge is not accepted, it will claim the championship of American college rowing, and call upon public opinion to sustain its claim. While it is about it, it might make its challenge a little broader so as to take in Oxford and Cambridge...
...matter of college discipline is simplifying here yearly, and, in his report on this subject, the dean merely voices and opinion that is held by every one, when he states that order is kept principally by the college sentiment as a whole. All in all, the university at large has every reason to feel proud of the advancement and progress which Harvard is making year by year in every direction. And we shall have every reason to be gratified if the next report shows as successful a year as the last...
...writer turns his attention to the elective system, of which he apparently entertains an unfavorable opinion. He says: "General education is a question of the subjects to be taught, special education is a question of the person to be taught. The one depends on what is known, the range of present knowledge, which is not an individual matter; the other depends upon personal choice of a life specialty. A chief purpose of the general or college education is to afford that comprehensive view of the world of knowledge and activities which shall enable the student to make intelligent choice...
...college, receiving him a boy should send him forth a man. And it should treat him in view of his transitional character during this period. The college theory of discipline should contemplate an increasing development of responsibility during the successive college years. You cannot successfully appeal to public opinion unless there is a public opinion to which to appeal; and the failure to recognize this truism has been the cause of the disappointment of many liberal educators who have trusted to a sense of responsibility before they have taken any pains to develop such a sense. And yet the unmitigated...