Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meeting of the Athletic Committee held last evening it was decided that in view of the opinion given by the Corporation Counsel of Boston in regard to the building of the wooden stands in the Stadium no action would be taken by the committee. Graduate Treasurer F. W. Moore '93 will apply for the necessary permit to erect these stands today...
...have been made to feel that their hosts were really glad to see them and anxious to hear what they had to say. And there are few Harvard men who would not feel a real thrill of pride could they realize how deeply the French care for the good opinion and sympathy of this University--how strongly they desire "that Harvard at least should know the truth of this war," as they often expressed it. President Eliot's views concerning it have been widely read in France, and have created a profound impression there; whatever the rest of the United...
...There are three currents of opinion about war in this country which are unaware that they are all on the same side. They are represented by the pacifists, the preparationists, and the rest of the people who in ordinary times do not think about the subject...
...would be less anxious to go to war. The mere fact of delay would give time for sober second thought, and for the advocates of peace within the country itself to make their protests heard. If time is given, war can hardly be made without the support of public opinion, and the dream of those who have been urging that the people must be consulted would be fulfilled. In short, the essence of the proposal is the enforcement of delay...
...great growth and influence of the Law School, however, came under the regime of President Eliot and Dean Langdell, when the case system was evolved,-the system now in use by most law schools in this country. A recent noted investigator from Vienna expressed the opinion that students were probably better prepared in the University for the actual practice of their profession than anywhere wlse in the world. Since Langdell took control in 1871, the Law School has to its credit not only the evolution of the case system, but also the creation of an academic, non-practising group...