Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Each graduate is asked to state his opinion as to the benefit or harm resulting from the influence of the elective system in his case, and to answer several more specific questions,--as to the number of courses taken to evade hard work; the effect of the system on strenuousness of application; the opinion of the writer regarding prescribed studies in schools and colleges, and what the studies thus prescribed should be. If the questions meet with general and intelligent response the result will, it is believed, be of great importance in the whole matter of American education...
...opinion which has at one time or another gained ground--that there is "juggling" done occasionally with the figures in statistical offices--there is this to say. "Juggling" with facts is impossible. The agents could send in no false figures to the central office for they would be discovered if they did. In the central office itself all political and social tendencies are represented and the statistical editors work in an atmosphere of free criticism of each other and of their chief. From the unscientific data of the part it has been difficult to secure scientific conclusions, and if there...
...Dana 1M., all of whom have shot in intercollegiate matches, and E. W. Leonard '03, who was substitute last year. In addition, a large number of new men have come out this year, of whose ability it is yet too early to form a reliable opinion...
...American in five votes for a person, that one in ten votes for a platform, and that the great mass of Americans vote for parties. He then goes on to insist that, contrary to de Tocqueville and Mr. Bryce, actual parties with definite underlying principles do exist. His opinion is contained in the following extract: "Further, I maintain that a fair-minded examination of the present aspect of our two great parties leads to the conclusion that they still represent with reasonable consistency, the two great sets of interests, and the two great types of character, which in modern self...
...editorial column contains a discussion by Professor Hart, from a rather one-sided point a view, of the issues of the campaign and the personalities of the candidates; an opinion of Bryan as a party leader by H. A. Yeomans 1L., and several other short editorials. The illustrations are portraits of President McKinley, Governor Roosevelt '80 and Senator Hoar...