Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thirds of the spectators; and right here it would be well to remark that it is not the college which follows blindly whatever sentiment her papers chance to adopt, as the Record chooses to insinuate, but on the contrary, the papers represent, and that, too, most adequately the popular opinion of the college. The editorial goes on to state: "The result was a bitter disappointment, of course," alluding to Harvard, "but does that justify the conduct of their men among the spectators, hissing every fine play made by the Yale team?" We owe thanks to the Record for furnishing...
...that the college was considerably surprised at the sentiments expressed in the article on Harvard boating in the Sunday Herald would be making a very moderate statement. Although neither the college nor the boat club can be held responsible for the published opinion of any one graduate, yet since this graduate is one who has been to a great extent identified with our rowing affairs, and since we think that the college at large wholly disagrees with him in this instance, we wish to make an emphatic statement of what we have good reason to believe is the general disapproval...
...college resulting therefrom, the corporation hold themselves at liberty to revoke the degree of any graduate of the university for participating in such disturbances, provided he has not held the degree for more than one week. Mr. B. R. Curtis has advanced, through the columns of a contemporary, an opinion on the subject which wins approbation from some of our best legal authorities and most devoted friends of the university. The concluding part of his last article is subjoined : "The overseers voted to reserve the right to revoke degrees not held longer than one week. This language is plain...
...plan for the establishment of an Inter-collegiate Press Association has at last taken definite form and bids fair to be soon realized. The HERALD has previously expressed itself as in favor of the scheme and sees no reason now for changing its opinion. With careful and sensible management and with moderate and definite aims there is every reason why such an association should become a success and a power of great moment in the college world. In spite of the ultra-conservative forebodings of the Crimson and the Courant we think its uses and its outcome need neither...
...hope that Princeton, Yale and Brown would follow her and thus leave Dartmouth and Amherst in the lurch. We certainly think that a smaller league than the present one is desirable, since it would result in a closer contest for the championship. This, however, in largely a matter of opinion, and we shall be glad to publish the opinion of any one who entertains a different view of the subject...