Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...second place, many students, either from sickness or other legitimate causes, are compelled to miss several lectures in the series. Copying others' notes is not always satisfactory and if the topic is important, is often misunderstood in relation to other topics. Thirdly, without expressing an opinion as to the usefulness of tutors in general, we think much expense is saved when instructors offer a voluntary review of the course as a whole. Many men go to tutors merely to have the frequent jumble of facts (which often results after 35 lectures) rearranged and to ask questions. Why could not such...
...will, therefore, appear that undergraduate opinion on these two points is exactly the reverse of what it should be. And it is not difficult to calculate the salutary effect of a readjustment. Under the present consensus there is too much temptation for the athlete who feels sure of a position on a team, to lie back and think that he is so necessary that the coaches and others will "baby" him along. As probation is now considered, the displeasure of the Office is by no means synonymous with popular disgrace. Were it so looked on, there would be far fewer...
...late games considerably less. It has resulted in disaster on one or two occasions in contests that meant a good deal. It has not been productive of any spectacular plays. The onside kick has been, as always, a matter of luck. There seems to be a wide diversity of opinion on the matter of the rules so far as physical injuries are concerned, which only a more careful analysis can really determine. Without statistical information it seems as if injuries to the hand, arm, and shoulder had been more prevalent this year than before, but injuries to the body...
...womankind. Women have to pay every kind of tax that is laid, yet they have no hand in electing the officials who make them pay. Even in making laws in regard to infantile paralysis, child labor, free competition of women in business, and social questions of this kind, their opinion is not asked...
...could not help being disappointed at a scoreless tie. That Harvard was Yale's superior in nearly every department of the game and that the Blue was saved from defeat by the excellent individual work of Howe, Philbin, and Ketcham is the general concensus of opinion. And in great contrast to this brilliancy of individuals was the united team-play which characterized Harvard's work throughout the game...