Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...lecture delivered before the Harvard Teachers Association Saturday, Professor R. B. Perry '97 subjected the question of the instruction of school children to pschycological analysis. He first called attention to the general educational opinion of the day, that there must be a shift from purely intellectual to moral instruction. The importance of moral education is seen in the fact that moral education is seen in the fact that moral education is seen in the fact that ideals, to gain which he must see clearly the general end of his life's activities. "We are likely to forget we are human...
...same position this year, and was part of the strong defense which was the best feature of the team. Claflin is 20 years old, 5 feet, 9 inches tall, and weighs 155 pounds. He has been given a position on this year's Intercollegiate hockey team by concensus of opinion...
...opinions of both President Lowell and Dean Briggs, stated in their annual report in February, 1913, against extravagant expenditure for athletics was evidently the opinion of last year's H. A. A. administration. A statement showing a decrease in expenses of $4,500 is a hopeful sign; and it is to be noted that the principal saving was in football, in which Mr. Garcelon speaks of the aid of Coach Haughton. The closer the co-operation between players and management and coaches, the greater will be the economies of athletics...
...traditional height of shamelessness in athletics is the existence of a probation team stronger than the regulars. There have been times, especially in class sports, when such conditions held. Slowly the rise of undergraduate opinion against neglect of studies, and the feeling that a man may break mental training as well as physical, have improved the scholarship standard of athletes...
Undergraduate opinion, however, still has far to go. Too few men realize that they come to college primarily to study, or if they realize it themselves, are too weak in their condemnation of the men who fail to observe it. If a man on probation were shunned as the devil, we could feel pretty sure that only those--and they are few--who were mentally incapable of earning two C's and a D would be there. As it is even the athlete, immensely more in the college eye than any other man, deprives a team of his services...