Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Thirdly, as to Faust. A vote was taken last year when we had done with it, and five-sixths of the class were of opinion it would be a good thing to read in German...
...needless, but we are positive that there are many of us who would be glad to get some instruction in Assaying, but who do not care to go to a school where it would be necessary for us to become scientific specialists. For this reason it would, in our opinion, be a wise step on the part of the Faculty to add a course of this description to the electives in Chemistry, unless there be decided obstacles, unknown to us, to prevent such action...
...Echo that no college paper can achieve success without hard work on the part of all connected with it. To drop a miscellaneous assortment of items into a hopper can hardly be called editing a paper, in the strict sense of the word. It is, we think, the general opinion that the Echo has never been all that a Harvard daily should be, nor yet all it at one time gave promise of becoming. In a new enterprise deficiencies are to be excused; but the present volume of the Echo falls considerably below the standard of its predecessors...
...Athenaeum. This gentleman has certainly not laid himself open to personal asperities; his reviews and criticisms have been distinguished for good temper, exact judgment, moderation, and ability; and his manly refusal to enter into any duel with the Athenaeum can only confirm us in our previous high opinion...
...summing up, we wish to say that in our opinion the Lacrosse Team has been somewhat arbitrary in enforcing its technical right; furthermore, that the argument of seniority seems to be one in favor of tennis rather than Lacrosse; and, lastly, that though Lacrosse men regard the fact that the Association has been self-supporting as a peculiar merit, we look on this as proving that Lacrosse has hitherto been unsuccessful in becoming generally popular; otherwise, as in base ball and football, subscriptions would have been necessary and would have been voluntarily given. It is our earnest hope, however, that...