Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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What is there that makes it plainly evident that student opinion is against compulsion? Surely it cannot be the fact that no single opponent to the plan appeared before the Student Council Committee which sat for the express purpose of hearing whatever objections might be advanced against compulsion...
...list of debating subjects give some indication of how rapidly public opinion changes under constant agitation. A year age the question that was debated, not only in the triangular debates, but elsewhere, was whether we should increase our military and naval forces at all. Today the question everyone is discussing is not, "Shall we prepare?" but "How shall we prepare?" The University has answered in a way by forming the regiment and the aero corps...
Adverse criticism of the Musical Review has been voiced recently by such men as the musical critic of the New York Tribune and by Mr. Francis Rogers '91, chorister of the Harvard Club of New York City. Both express the opinion that as an authority on art the Musical Review has little value. The majority of articles are contributed by undergraduates, and the views supported are the product of minds inexperienced and without breadth. A student cannot have developed any real power of discernment in music; hence his opinion can have but little weight. Music is, according to the point...
...CRIMSON wishes to know the "sense" of the University on the question of compulsory membership in the Union. Was the thought father to the wish? Is it not plainly evident that the weight of student opinion is against compulsion? Naturally, if a vote were taken, most of those who are members will murmur indifferently "Yes," while those who are non-members will roar, as one man, "No!" Moreover, there are more non-members than members. Any "sober, thinking, mathematician" can work out a victory for the Non-Union party. Is the vote just or unjust, wise or unwise? Well...
...Student Council has now been in active operation since 1908. It was established then with the express purpose of co-operating with the Faculty in the endeavor to raise the general intellectual standard, and particularly to bring before the governing authorities of the University the complete expression of undergraduate opinion, whatever form that opinion might take. In addition, the petition presented to the Faculty concerning the establishment of a student council, brought up the important mission it would have in helping the Athletic Committee in eradicating any of the evils that might crop out in the conduct of athletics...