Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Voted, That the faculty and committee be informed that the corporation and board of overseers are of the opinion that further restrictions should be placed upon intercollegiate contests in regard to the places where and the days when they shall be played, and the teams that shall take part therein...
...They taught that without total abstinence was the greatest peril but if we approach the subject more carefully we shall see that a man may take a glass of liquor without absolute ruin; but, on the other hand, we shall see that there is a growing consensus of opinion pointing to absolute temperance, and that to succeed in life a man must follow in this opinion. In the speaker's college days men considered it necessary to take stimulants in order to become strong; but the athletes of to-day understand that in order to make the most of themselves...
...Moorfield Storey in his paper entitled "Politics as a Duty and as a Career" has timely suggestion as to the manner of arousing public opinion in regard to matters of national interest and as to the duty. of each citizen in the struggle to make public opinion effective. The writer comes to the conclusion that politics as a career must be a failure of all but the wealthy; that while parties must exist, it is almost impossible to carry effective measures of reform into operation by means of party machinery. We agree with Mr. Story in many points...
...undergraduates last winter. It is a semi-official statement of the motives which led to the movement among the students which culminated in the series of meetings held at the Globe Theatre. The writer gives an estimate of the result of those meetings, an estimate in our opinion perfectly just. He urges either that the meetings be repeated under somewhat different plans, or that some more practical scheme of work be suggested immediately. The writer is right when he hints that it would be a pity to allow the work inaugurated last year to be discontinued, and we hope that...
...Republican party favors temperance.- Speech of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster, Sept. 5, 1888, (pamphlet); New York Mail and Express, (in Public Opinion, March...