Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have been a good deal of uncertainty concerning the committee's negotiations with the Corporation in regard to the "Tree." As was stated in our first letter the Corporation pointed out to us many difficulties in the present form of the Tree Exercises and urged us to gather the opinions of the class concerning the changes proposed. We have asked for expressions of opinion and, in several ways, have, we believe, gathered the general opinion of the class. During the past week or two we have tried to meet the Corporation to get a final decision, but have been unable...
...resolutions adopted by the University A. C. of New York relative to holding the annual Yale-Princeton football game on college grounds have created considerable discussion in the university. The general opinion seems to be that the time has come when college athletics must be stripped of the mercenary aspect necessarily incident to holding the game in New York, and that the course suggested by the University A. C. would be for the best interests of the game...
...towards the improvement of the field if the athletic management would supply the remainder. They wish to have the field present as good an appearance as possible, without unsightly seats. They would prefer to have the baseball diamond on the football field with the same seats for both. The opinion of students was asked for, and was unanimously against the plan. Professor Hollis then showed with the aid of a map a scheme devised by Mr. Peabody, the architect, by which the fields would be separate but the seats would be in line and those of the diamond would continue...
...reply to the gentleman that I thank heaven I have no sympathy with his sentiments, and that I hope and believe few Harvard men have. If he and those of his opinion be so void of imagination, so dried at heart, and so lean of chivalry as not to feel the stir of a single inspiration from the past at entering that contest which has been shared in by so many Harvard generations-pray let them sit upon the benches and be silent. But to be brief...
...agree with the writer that people from a distance would suffer great hardship from an extension of time. In fact I believe just the opposite; people can not and will not come here from a distance to spend a single day. This opinion is thoroughly impressed upon those of us who live outside of Massachusetts. There must be entertainment extending over several days to bring people three hundred miles...