Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Opinion in the University is, of course, divided. Members of the Faculty have written and spoken upon both sides. Among undergraduates, however, there is a great deal of unthinking talk; especially is there a tendency for students to declare themselves opposed to it as a matter of course. Some men in the University will vote on the question; all are or should be interested in it. Believing that intelligent discussion will be profitable, and since the public forums will not begin until the day for voting is past, the CRIMSON invites communications on the subject...
...concentration and steadiness of purpose will prove even materially remunerative. Yet statistics compiled by President Lowell have proved conclusively that the men who have acquired these things in college have made the greatest worldly successes. And, according to an investigation recently conducted by Hobart College, the consensus of the opinion of successful men is that these are the qualities which university training should develop...
...club house of the Speakers' Club was at 36 Quincy street. The new quarters at 39 Holyoke street, while somewhat smaller, are much more adapted to the needs of the club. The club; which aims "to increase interest and efficiency in oral expression and to discover and develop representative opinion concerning current problems," is composed of undergraduates and graduates. The open University Forums are under the management of its Executive Committee. An annual extemporaneous speaking contest is held by the club for a prize each spring. Fortnightly dinners followed by discussion alternating with fortnightly addresses by prominent men are held...
...that we can, and the upshot of the argument here presented is comprised in the old adage that the true basis for culture is to know a little of everything and everything of something. While we may admit that this is the object to be sought, sharp differences of opinion exist, and will remain, in regard to the means of attaining it. One question thrusts itself prominently forward: every man who is to study a profession must, if he is serious, master that subject well; why, then, it may be asked, should he not devote his previous college course wholly...
...college and professional schools. It follows also that the course in the college ought to cover a number of different subjects, together with a somewhat thorough study of one among them. What that one should be will vary with the personal aptitude of the student. In my own opinion, it is better, as a general rule, that it should not be too closely akin to the subject which will engross attention in the chief occupation of life; because any direct professional knowledge that can be obtained in college is trifling compared with what can be acquired in a far shorter...