Word: opinion
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...Hovelaque (Inspector of Public Instruction), M. de Lapradelle (Professor of Law), M. Lichtenberger (Professor of German Language and Literature, former French Exchange Professor at Harvard), and Professor J. H. Woods. The task of the Committee is to collect methodically all available information concerning the trend of public opinion in America, both for a better understanding in France of the American point of view, and for use by the French Foreign Office, War Office and other branches of Government. The Committee wants chiefly clippings from newspapers, giving not so much items of news, as expressions of opinion, in leading articles, reports...
...work is, of course, wholly voluntary, but the Committee offers to send in return any information about currents of opinion in France which its correspondents may desire. This seems a good opportunity of doing a service to France at very little trouble to the individual student, who, according to his opportunities, might specialize in clippings bearing on one or more topics from the list given below...
...Bulletin, on the ground that they did not deal with matters of alumni interest and concern, I believe it would be unfortunate if any members of the University should be permitted to entertain a just resentment against the College daily for closing its columns to reasonable expressions of opinion on College matters. In the present instance I would not undertake to distinguish between just and unjust resentment, reasonable and unreasonable expressions. If the letters addressed to the Bulletin had criticized that journal and not the CRIMSON, they would probably have been printed without any such analysis...
...similar but smaller organizations are now forming in Annapolis, Md., and in Washington, for the avowed purpose of associating "Harvard Liberals in clubs in all cities; to elect Liberals to the Board of Overseers and Directors of the Alumni Association; to enfranchise absentee alumni; to unify alumni Liberal opinion...
Princeton's objection to the question: "Resolved, That the Government should limit the free expression of opinion, that is, free speech of press and assembly in war-time," was on the ground that the subject was undebatable,--that there was no negative...