Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consequence of a slight difference of opinion yesterday between John Smith and Sam Thompson, waiters at Memorial, Mr. Smith will make a brief sojourn at the Massachusetts General Hospital...
Voted, That in the opinion of this board the interest of the college would be promoted if at each commencement the members of the graduating class should be the guests of the Alumni Association at the commencement dinner...
...Howard Crosby of New York is a gentleman who has gained a national reputation for independence of opinion and originality of thought on all public questions. Any opinions of his, there-fore, on questions of importance to our colleges will be read with interest and attention by American students. Dr. Crosby has been fulminating against college sports and inter-collegiate contests. His expressions are bold and radical, and, it must be said, will have a considerable weight as representing the views of a large class of people in this country on the subject. And yet the fairer class of people...
Herr von Gossler, Prussian minister of education, has issued a circular ordering that all the boys in the higher schools of the country shall be made to play games. For some time public opinion in Germany has been much exercised about the physical condition of the boys; they were good scholars, but listless; inactive, unenterprising, often appallingly short-sighted. A remedy is to be sought not only in gymnastics but in cricket and foot-ball and other out-door games requiring skill and agility. It is a wise ruling...
There is a wide diversion of opinion among the ways and means committee-men with regard to revenue reduction...