Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...training and selection of members of the crew and general superintendence of the rowing matters in general. There has been too much relying on the present captain for all such matters during the past two or three years. but the question is whether it has been the captains' good opinion of themselves or the refusal of the graduates to help them...
...hazardous a system this bowing submissively to the opinion of a 'Varsity captain, and the sooner the custom is abandoned and a return made to the very plan which Yale now goes by (taken from Harvard originally and deliberately abandoned here) the sooner will Harvard crews win, and not before...
...taken collectively as an example of the typical freshman of the present year. Undoubtedly they have repented of their ignorance and folly before this, but their classmates will have to suffer until, by some more manly action, as the defeat of Yale at foot-ball, we may change our opinion of the new underclassmen, hoping it will represent the majority of them more truly than the one occasioned by an evening's nonsense publicly displayed...
...college shall obtain a yearly average of 60 per cent., instead of 50? And this, in face of the fact that the rigorously-minded instructors have not departed one jot or one tittle from their ancient rigor. I think I may safely say that I voice the opinion of the majority of the students (not that the majority have been dropped), when I urge that, if we must cling to the new marking system, the letter D be made to mean a mark from forty per cent. to fifty, instead of from forty per cent to sixty...
President Dwight expressed the opinion that Ater had violated rule 44 of the college, which provides that "if a student interferes with personal liberty of a member of another class or offers him any indignity or insult, he may be permanently suspended from his class." The faculty then unanimously voted to expel Ater and to further consider the charges against other sophomores charged with the same offense. The action of the faculty has caused a decided sensation, a similar action not having been taken in eight years.- Record...