Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...success of the petition depends upon a full expression of opinion from all who are connected with the college-members of the faculty, instructors and students alike-will you have the kindness to answer immediately the enclosed postal card affirmatively or negatively...
About sixteen new candidates for the Yale crew began training on Friday. Carter, Gill and Corbin, who last year were considered the strongest oars in college, have signified their intention of not training for this year's crew; but the opinion seems prevalent at New Haven that they will be induced to begin rowing within a few weeks at any rate. If Caldwell, the famous stroke, who is now in the Yale Theological School, can be induced to take his old position, there is little doubt that Yale will send to New London a crew which will compare favorably with...
...must give our opinion, however, that the attitude of Columbia towards Harvard is not correctly indicated by the Spectator. We should be very sorry to think that the student-body of Columbia had become actuated by so discreditable a feeling of spite. We desire to suggest to the editors of the Spectator that simple justice demands an apology for the appearance of such an article. We suggest, finally, for the edification of the Spectator, that the value of criticism lies in manliness and straightforwardness of utterances; not in power to work injury by a sneering laugh...
...political alphabet. Therefore it is that we have no right to surrender our conscience, our responsibility, our duty, or, in fact, any one of these three attributes which were born within us. The comparative right to rule by intrinsic merit is decided not by one man, but by the opinion of the majority of our fellow citizens, and the power of this majority is not that merely of the majority over the minority. It lies in the consent of all to the choice of the majority, with the proviso that that choice shall be frequently considered...
...evils which attend the system of private "tutoring" as it exists at Harvard. To all such students we recommend these editorials. We have now the right to expect in the Monthly a continuation of the good work it has done in its attempts to build up an enlightened public opinion among students...