Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...problem is not the problem of abolishing industrial combinations here and there, but of properly applying the principles which they represent. Our system of National Banks paved the way for an extension of this system to other corporations. The result has been a decided awakening of public discussion. Public opinion, as such, is the safeguard of a country; but when the public has become so impressed with the importance of this vague opinion as to urge its formation into law, its utility becomes restricted and minimized by state or local legislation...
...outside comment on the subject of the comparative effects of a three-mile and a four-mile boat race? This question has interested the rowing authorities at Cornell for some years and has been discussed at meetings of various representatives of the crews which row at Poughkeepsie. The opinion of the Cornell coach, Mr. Courtney, may be of some interest, as the Cornell crews under his care, although at times unsuccessful, have made the mile and a half record (at Philadelphia), the three-mile record (at New London), and the four-mile record (at Poughkeepsie). His experience therefore embraces...
...graduates of recent years to a series of questions sent out by the Seminary in the fall of 1900. The number of question blanks sent out was 4728. Replies were received from 987 persons, or 21 per cent. Of these, 712, or over 72 per cent., express the opinion that in their cases the elective system has been beneficial. But 67 consider its effects harmful. In a corresponding way 555 consider that strenuousness of application is promoted by the elective system; 150 see no effect on application, and only 56 believe that it is reduced...
...Mabilleau delivered his third economic lecture Friday evening on "Le Probleme des retraites ouvrieres devant le Parlement et l'opinion." He discussed the system of providing for the worn out workmen in France; and showed that it is more economical to have a regular list of pensioners than to support paupers in a poor house, according to the English custom...
Lectures on La Prevoyance Sociale en France. III. Le probleme des retraites ouvrieres devant le Parlement et l'opinion. Professor Mabilleau. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...