Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been strong protest against the old system, the opinion being generally held that the old Council was selecting the new Council. By the new plan, the majority of the nominating committee will consist of non-members of the Council...
...Teachers' Union in its tactful statement last night did not express an opinion on "matters of departmental competence"-presumably to decide on the qualifications of its staff members. But it did bring into the open an issue which has plagued the University in the past and which will continue to as long as its theory and practice of academic tenure remains unchanged. It is the spectacle of the great, impersonal university playing with the lives of its hirelings, using them as long as they are useful to it and discarding them unsystematically. Up to a point this rigorous competition...
...matter how severe may be the rigors of Franco's regime, I can hardly see the point of aggravating such rigors by prolonging a war which, in the opinion of most, has already been lost . . . Therefore, I oppose a petition of which the utility is extremely problematical and the immediate results unquestionably undesirable. Alan. J. Ansen...
...single instance of a general attitude to the same effect that teachers are born and not made, that teaching is an art which no amount of training in the science of education can impart. Dean Holmes of the Harvard School of Education has summed it up as the opinion that "any fine boy or girl will make a good teacher" whether or not he has any knowledge of the technical aspects of teaching itself...
...what purports to be "the first statistical proof of how the nation as a whole values a college education," Fortune's February Survey of Public Opinion reveals that almost half of the nation's families believe that a college man has the best chance for "success...