Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee on the part of the directors has investigated the fare at such tables as described by "K.," and their opinion is that the fare does not compare in any respect with that served at Memorial Hall...
...great evil of our American civilization is its uniformity. Uniformity in the common school education, uniformity of standards in thought and in action always check a broad development of intellectual life. Then there grows the absolute tyranny of public opinion that stifles all that is good in individuality...
...help on our college athletics; to make some sacrifice, be it money or time, for the honor of Harvard. Another point discussed is the restriction which the faculty has seen fit to put on our athletic contests. There can be no better place for the expression of the opinion of the college than in the editorial columns of a college paper, and the Advocate acquits itself well...
President Eliot and one or two others expressed the opinion that athletic victory or defeat has no influence on the attendance at any college. Others, among whom was President Dwight, held that while there were doubtless, some persons who were inclined toward one college or another by its athletic success, the public opinion as regards the number of such person is greatly exaggerated. The general opinion was that such circumstances as athletic victory or defeat do have some effect; but the influence they exercise is confined to a small class of persons...
...were treated as above suspicion and examined without proctors. Suppose then that some of them, being tempted by Satan, were to cheat, and to be seen cheating. What I should like "H. H. D." to answer is this: What likelihood would there be, in the present state of college opinion, of such students being sent to Coventry, dropped from the various associations with which they might be connected, and made to feel generally they had disgraced themselves in the public eye? It is all very well to talk about the individual's honor needing no guarantee. But the only place...