Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This appointment, has particular interest in view of the resolutions recently passed by the Board of Overseers of Harvard University that in their opinion especial attention should be given to the quality of English used in all examination papers presented by candidates for admission to Harvard College or in college courses, with a view to exacting an acceptable use of English in the examination papers of all subjects, and to making such use an essential part of the requirements in English. The matter was referred to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences who are making a special investigation...
This latter development of the agitation seems to come nearer the root of the matter than has any before it. The concensus of opinion, if there was any concensus at all, of the letters which followed Mr. Bok's attack on colleges in the Outlook last summer was that the blame for poor English lay, not with the colleges directly, but with the preparatory and even grammar schools. It is true that it was generally believed that colleges were tending to encourage other studies at the expense of English, but, as far as the principles of English technique were concerned...
...recapitulation of the Dreyfus cases, in which M. Labori figured so prominently. He was counsel for the defence when Captain Dreyfus was granted a new trial, and during the course of the case was shot by a would-be assassin. President Lowell extolled his bravery in facing adverse public opinion because he deemed himself in the right...
...This was a fatal moment in the history of Israel, the nation which was bound to influence more deeply than any other the religious opinion of modern Europe, which was in sore stress, and, in fact, in danger of extinction...
...less true that those into whose hands Yard tickets legitimately come are really guests of the Senior Class. In its appeal on another page, the 1913 Class Day Committee generously gives no harsher name than "mere carelessness" to those who thus offend. To us it seems that the public opinion of the University would give a less mild epithet to men who disregard the whole intent and purpose of the occasion as implied in the official title "Class...