Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hoped that this communication will be taken by the members of that body in the spirit in which it is written, as a friendly, though, on that account, none the less spirited suggestion, from one who believes he repeats the whole-somely conservative opinion of many of the older members of the Glee Club, who, through long association, have best learned to love and appreciate "Fair Harvard." I. C. WHITTEMORE...
...stages of his business career. He was apt to be impatient with exacting routine and wearisomely repeated detail operations, because he did not realize their significance. He often sought promotion, not merely because the pay was higher but because the work was more interesting, before in his employer's opinion he was fitted for the work of the organization he had entered. Sometimes, when only ignorant that there is a fascinating science of business, he was thought to be supercilious, as if, leaving higher things, he condescended to his work. A great employer recently expressed his preference for college...
Everyone has agreed that the Union as an undergraduate social center is indispensable. The two sides of college education and training roughly divided as the academic and social sides, were variously estimated. The majority valuated the two sides equally--that is, it was the consensus of opinion that a man derived as much benefit from the association with his classmates and the participation in the life of his class as he did from the strictly academic side of his college work. It was held that every member of a class by reason of his membership in the class should...
...support the Union is so great, a radical change will have to be made in conducting the activities of the Union in the future unless some form of universal support is adopted. Hence, it is not out of place to consider the alternative. It was the consensus of opinion at the hearing that the added expense to classes from the rent of halls for class smokers, dinners, dances and mass meetings if the Union were not at their disposal, would average five or six dollars per man if the expenses were borne equally by every man. In other words...
Since the Student Council has determined wisely to estimate student opinion on the question by actual vote, members of the College must form and express their sentiments. In making their final decision they should take care that their attitude is serious and unselfish, for the vital effect of the proposed change will be that upon undergraduates as a body, not that upon the individual...