Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This year's Pi Eta show is well worth seeing. It is a new idea set in an old scene, and the whole revitalized by means of exceedingly clever lines and good music. No opinion is so frank and unrestrained as that of the graduate who looks back on an array of former shows, good and otherwise; but if this year's play can everywhere arouse such unqualified enthusiasm as that of Thursday night, it will receive, what it well deserves--success. A. T. DAVISON...
...existed and still exists a mistaken disregard of scholarship. Plenty of men of energy and ability in every class never take Phi Beta Kappa seriously, or at least do not take it so until after their chance of winning it is gone. There is something wrong with undergraduate opinion, something beyond the indifference of the unenergetic which is a price of freedom and individualism...
...five high stand men in the class. It is understood to elect men somewhat on a basis of character when as a matter of fact it elects them on an almost absolute basis of scholarship--marks being in the long runs, the best indication of scholarship. Consequently the general opinion is often that the Society is short-sighted in its choice of men, and it loses prestige. Make it purely honorary for the thirty of forty high stand men of the class, and what ever popular opinion of certain of the men elected may be, it will be recognized that...
...must always be remembered that the struggle for a proper valuation of scholarship is a problem of turning the popular opinion of the college, and turning it toward something which the general tone of American life does not favor. The change is a slow one -- we believe that it has been operating with the higher standards of scholarship during the past few years--and is still far from accomplishment. Every move which will influence it should be made; the two suggested are evident and practical...
...closing his speech President Eliot mentioned the suggestions he made to the Carnegie endowment as a basis for profitable expenditure. These are: first, to create and support agencies competent to prevent or reduce wrongs and miseries which cause war; secondly, to strengthen public opinion in favor of publicity in government affairs; thirdly, to probe all secrets in administration, industries and legislation; fourthly, to cultivate in all nations a public spirit, and to encourage the devotion of private money to public uses; fifthly, to create and foster agencies such as hospitals, training schools and technical schools in countries where they...