Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...when so regarded, the numerous reports of the past year seem to establish one thing and that not very startling. President Lowell once likened a college community to a cross-section of the outside world. Such would seem to be the consensus of opinion of the statisticians although they seldom state it thus. In short, Harvard, or Wisconsin, or Yale,--or any University of like size, -- can not be called a "rich man's college," or a poor man's college or even a middle class college without violating the full character of the community. All classes-financially, morally, intellectually...
...Harvard night at the Park Theatre will be this evening, when W. White uC. will appear in the role of the Hon. Archibald Graham in "The Blindness of Virtue." Mr. Bunker's performance of the part on Monday evening was on the whole quite successful, and well sustained the opinion of Mr. Morris, the manager of the company, that a college man can turn to the theatre with advantage. His acting was most convincing and forceful, with good attention to details, the greatest fault being that a close observation showed that his presentation was somewhat lacking in unity. The performance...
...ballot, out of deference to the sentiment that such a man was most likely too bookish for any "practical" job. The net result is the same as if most of the elections were formally limited to athletes, and constitutes a demonstration of the state of university public opinion...
...these ways to give to intellectual pursuits a higher place in the undergraduate esteem should, of course, be done. But the question is much more than a matter of details. As one of the essayists remarks, "the fundamental consideration is the development of a new public opinion that shall condemn and ostracize the laggard and recognize the leadership of the intellectual student." Impartial observes have noted a more serious attitude toward the intellectual side of university life in the West than in the East. Here it tends to become the custom for any years at a university. The inevitable outcome...
...matters is to let him work under a trainer who knows his weaknesses and powers. In short, it is the old question of establishing intimacy between student and instructor. It takes men already intellectually alive, and not men bribed by hopes of undergraduate kowtowing, to arouse "a new public opinion that shall condemn of ostracize the laggard...