Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Debating Club at its meeting last evening adopted the following resolution as the opinion of the club in the question of commemorating the Harvard men who served on the Confederate side in the Civil...
...Prouty insisted upon the fact that the railroad question is still to be settled. As it is to be settled by public opinion, that opinion must be intelligent in order to judge impartially...
...speaker, A. Gregg, praised the new method in that it enabled men to have some sincere reason for rooming in the Yard and did away with the custom of applying simply because it was a thing generally done by most of the class. P. D. Smith, denying the general opinion that friends are not made during Senior year, said that great reliance may be placed in the hearty favor of our greatest graduate; President Lowell, who is doing so much to unify the College and do away with disconnected cliques. The Senior year is the time to renew those acquaintances...
...articles, letters and editorials which have recently been published in the various college papers, leave no reasonable doubt that a change in the Harvard entrance requirements is not only desirable but urgent. Both the examiners and the headmasters of preparatory schools are of this opinion. Moreover, all the reports received by the investigating committee show that a change is wise. One argument, however, has been too little emphasized--the failure of the present system to carry out its professed purpose...
...leading article of the current Advocate by Mr. Olmsted, head-master of Pomfret School, is of great interest, because it presents clearly and forcibly the opinion of most of the prominent preparatory school masters upon a present and vital question--that of the Harvard admission requirements. Mr. Olmsted believes "that quality and accuracy of work is much more to be desired than ill-prepared quantity." This is putting it mildly. Under the present entrance requirements so much work in so many different fields is demanded that the candidate for admission is literally swamped with the multiplicity of subjects required...