Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Professor Wiener expressed recently the opinion that the Russian army is now for the first time in its history in the control of the government. He believes that the new cabinet contains some of the best men of Russia...
...last decade there has been a steadily deepening conviction that dead languages are out of place in a living civilization. Public opinion has demanded that education should be more practical, that it should train men for increased usefulness in the nation. Modern languages, literature, science, history and economics -- we cannot even read the morning paper without utilizing them. Yet Latin rather lacks these vital, essential qualities, for seldom does a situation arise in modern life which requires its services. We live, not in the faraway days of Rome, but in the tumultuous and perplexing whirl of the twentieth century...
...blind partisans" among our college faculties. So far, so good. Then in some curious manner you imply that only arrant pro-German fanatics have so spoken! Last evening Professor Ellery C. Stowell of Columbia University, speaking at the Labor Temple, New York City, said in his address: "The opinion of the people in this country as to the course of its rulers makes itself felt, and in the present instance I hope and believe that it is going to make itself felt in favor of war." Is this the sort of "political doctrine" which Columbia is about to "investigate...
...first-year Law School smoker which was to have been held in April have been abandoned. The ballot indicated that the members of the class were not sufficiently interested in the entertainment to contribute the time necessary to make it a success. In addition to this the general opinion that the first-year smokers do little to promote social intercourse among members of the class has led the committee in charge, with the approval of the Faculty, to abandon the smoker...
...opinion that in case of war the members of the R. O. T. C. who are physically fit will probably receive commissions," General Leonard Wood, M.D. '84, stated yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter. "The enthusiasm and interest in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is spreading and growing in a way that is fine to see. A great many applications for admittance are constantly pouring in. The number now coming in from Bowdoin, Wesleyan, Hamilton, and Union colleges is especially noteworthy. At Princeton the total enrolment has reached 863; and the students of the college have just petitioned for universal military...