Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That the Tufts football team out-played the University team in every department of the game is the opinion of C. E. Brickley '15, captain of the 1914 eleven. "It was the first time I ever saw a Harvard team forced to forward passing in its own territory in desperate attempts to advance the ball. In my opinion there was too much hesitation in running plays and too much crudeness in handling the ball...
...reason for the failure of so many college graduates in the business field may be found in their own opinion that immediately after graduation they should start at the top. There are seven maxims which might well be followed. First, look well to your own self. Dress according to your station. Second, know the thing that you are doing, and know that you know it. Third, do not burn the midnight oil. He is a blockhead who cannot do all his work in the day time. It is merely a matter of concentration, pure and simple...
During these last few weeks before the Presidential election, the air becomes more and more filled with discussion of the policies and personalities of the respective candidates. It is the very essence of democratic government that absolute freedom of expression should be given to the opinions of every member of the community; yet it is often a matter of considerable doubt whether some of the arguments advanced in favor of this or that candidate are really expressions of opinion in its true sense. Do the condemnations of one Presidential nominee, or the eulogisms which we hear heaped (or heap ourselves...
...should be the duty of those men who have had the advantage of a college education to form the more logical and mature portion of the whole body of public opinion. Education should tend to suppress the unreasoning emotions, which, particularly in times of crisis, urge people to hasty and unwise judgments. We should, therefore, cultivate a habit of deliberation in thinking and speaking of affairs of the nation and above all we should take care to be sufficiently well-informed about the political exigencies of the moment, that we may be able to have an opinion concerning the fitness...
Professor Pickering, of the Harvard Observatory, an expert and renowned man of science, denounces the "daylight saving" trick with the clock as a foolish and useless fiction. His opinion will have great weight and will carry conviction to the many who have hitherto regarded the scheme as a more or less successful plan to fool Mother Nature and her children at the same time...