Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...final section comes back to the original key with a triumphant and stirring motif. In its glorification of academic freedom, it is the liberal spirit epitomized. Extra-mural activities and opinions are not to be disregarded. They are to be given special weight--but far from being discriminated against, the radical and unorthodox viewpoint will be courted. For Harvard must have diversity of opinion within her ranks. Harvard must have her communist...
Arthur N. Holcombe '06, Professor of Government expressed the opinion that the award was one of the really constructive ways of training administrators and hoped that it would expand to include more ranking students in the near future...
Particularly canvassed yesterday were faculty members of the government Department in order that authoritative opinion might be expressed on Hicks teaching ability...
...Opinions coming from the scientific departments seemed to convey the general opinion that the new plan of cross-field and area concentrations will not create much change in the present setup. Both Professor Frederick A. Saunders, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Professor Frederick L. Hisaw, Chairman of the Biology Department, were of the opinion that the scientific fields are already broad enough to satisfy the requirements of practically any student interested in a scientific education...
Difference of opinion there must be. But social affairs must be so arranged as to suit all tastes, and if there is a large body of students chafing at the bit, impatient with House dances of the simpler sort, then the demand must at least be considered. How wide the appeal would be, how serious or how ephemeral the challenge to Harvard traditions, how practicable the affair from a mechanical point of view -- these are questions which the dance committees must decide. "De gustibus non disputandum est," and it may well be that an institution long discussed with a sneer...