Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pusey believes that if Harvard can publicize its own "program," in the face of public opinion which believes that Harvard is the "richest" college, it will point up the obvious needs of the rest of the nation's schools...
...less freedom than now. Everyone who wished to graduate had to follow a rigidly prescribed program. There were no courses in the modern sense, nor were three professors. Instead, the tutorial method was employed, with one tutor for each class. Students were promoted or demoted on their tutor's opinion of their industry and ability. Degrees were a more serious matter. Students had to go through searching oral examinations to get them...
...year 1839, the Orleans "Citizen King," Louis Philippe, anxious to curry favor with his nation's snootier aristocrats, who generally held a low opinion of him, offered to display the armorial bearings of anyone able to provide proof of an ancestor who had fought in the Crusades. Within a year Versailles was overflowing with applicants, all of whom bore ancient documents to attest their claims...
...choosing the man to oppose Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent in next summer's national election, the opinion was gaining ground in Progressive Conservative ranks that the time had come to take a calculated risk with a fresh leader, unbruised and unwearied by the Tories' past defeats in five straight elections. Ideally, he would be a man widely known and respected across the country, an able administrator, a good speaker, gifted with the intellect and energy to guide Canada's destiny as Prime Minister or serve as a rousing leader of the opposition in Parliament...
Economic or not, Calder Hall is a technical triumph and a boost to British prestige. Said Henry Gethin Davey, in charge of its construction: "Britain has the lead. I don't claim to know what the Russians are doing. I'm basing my opinion on the expressions on their faces when they first came to Calder Hall...