Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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From an editorial in the March Illustrated we learn that the ambition of the present board is "first of all to interest undergraduates and thereby to educate and mould opinion." It is a pleasure to find how near the present number comes to meeting the test so laid down. Mr. Gannet's "Impressions of Berlin University" give us an unusually intimate picture of German student life. His observations are pointed and keen; indeed, such ones as, "The German is perpetually hungry," and, "Akademische Freiheit is the Veritas of the German University," are almost epigrammatic. There is also novelty...
...statement in yesterday's CRIMSON, by the management of Mr. Goldberg's connection with the orchestra a few days previous to the appearance of his communication may, in the opinion of some, indicate too much severity," conveyed an unfortunate impression, because not until it appeared did I realize that my connection with the Pierian was severed...
...present day conditions is even worse. He denounces our colleges is even worse. He denounces our colleges as 'reactionary' and the 'greatest dead-weight the capitalist can fasten upon the necks of the American people. 'Politics,' he says, the colleges look upon as a low pursuit, and college opinion is regarded by our legislators as a joke. He thinks it a great pity that the political arm of our State and National Governments should not receive support from our colleges. Never in the history of the country have the nation and the state leaned so heavily upon our colleges...
...only place in the Government service today where college opinion and college men are regarded as a joke is in the Department of State. Mr. Bryan has driven J. B. Moore, a world authority on international law, from the post of counselor back to his chair at Columbia University. He has dismissed from the diplomatic service, after thirty years brilliant work, W. W. Rockhill, a college graduate whom the Chinese government is now seeking to employ as its chief adviser. In the place of a college man as First Assistant Secretary of State, Mr. Bryan has substituted a Wyoming apothecary...
...Goldberg's demands, but surpasses those set by many of the orchestras subsidized by the faculties of other colleges. As to discipline, the abrupt termination by the management of Mr. Goldberg's connection with the orchestra a few days previous to the appearance of his communication may in the opinion of some, indicate too much severity...