Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot let the last freak of the Lampoon go unnoticed. That publication has declared its intention of caricaturing members of the University whenever a fitting opportunity presents itself. Now that kind of thing was tried when the Lampoon was first started, and the consequences were disastrous. College opinion objected, and with justice, to this degraded form of wit; and we beg to warn the Lampoon that it is more than probable that college opinion will object again. There is plenty of wit and versatility in a big university like this without resorting to the low methods of political publications...
...Public opinion justified the filibustering and defeated the bill...
References: Congressional Record, April 3-13; New York Herald, April 3-13; Public Opinion, April 21; daily newspapers...
...small minority of the Democratic party, mostly from a single section, by "unmannerly and revolutionary filibustering," defeated the will of the majority, and blocked legislation for ten days: Daily papers, Public Opinion, Congr. Records...
...committee seems to be of the opinion that football ought to be prohibited at all events, as being the most dangerous and brutalizing of all sports. It is true that men are occasionally injured seriously on the football field; but for that reason are we to cultivate effeminate dispositions and weak bodies? We hold that the game of football is a manly, invigorating, and ennobling sport. It teaches self-control, coolness at critical moments, quickness of motion, and gives a man that pluck and grit under difficulties that must always be of service in after life. The assertion is made...