Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...numbered Pres. Gilman of Jolms Hopkins, Secretary Evarts, Donald Milchell and others of equal renown. Of Harvard'd publications Mr. Thwing says "although Harvard's papers have been less numerous than Yale's, they indicate, (considered as a whole) greater literary ability and have had greater influence on college opinion." This is certainly flattering. In 1827 we find that the "Harvard Register" appeared as a monthly with several contributors who have since attained prominence. This was short-lived and in 1830 the "Colleyian" appeared with Dr. Holmes as a contributor. Then came "Harvardiana" and then from...
...Thwing evidently has a high opinion of the average college paper, both as a "mirror of undergraduate sentiment" and as an "admirable training school for professional journalists," while he considers it of great service to the cause of higher education in "promoting inter-collegiate friendship and in exhibiting the methods of instruction and government," at the various colleges. But he also recognizes the dangers to which the college journalist is exposed but considers that they can be avoided by taking proper precautions. But he pays them the highest compliment when, speaking of their moral influence, he says.-"The college paper...
...some minds there seems to linger the erroneous idea that all college papers are published simply for amusement, and it would be well for any such to disabuse their minds of this impression, before venturing an opinion as to the liberty any paper should possess. It is not the amusement, by any means, that induces men to devote so much of their time to writing. The real aim of every college paper is to voice the best collegiate sentiment on subjects that intimately concern a student ; and that, by so doing, it tends to raise the tone of a college...
...restrictions whose haste and indiscretion has to be repented in almost immediate concessions. But even these so-called concessions are sufficiently inadequate to indicate the reluctance with which they were made. And now the Princetonian has come under the displeasure of the Faculty by its too free expression of opinion. Not that that paper was guilty of any breach of respect in its attitude toward that body, but merely because it ventures to express opinions differing from those of the authorities in regard to certain points in the government of the college. If an instance of this kind had occurred...
...would seem if your columns do present the public opinion of Harvard students in general that the only spot where a higher education should be sought is at Harvard and that all other colleges should disband at once,-ditto consequently their publications of all sorts and kinds...