Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...increase in the debt has been the heavy expense of repairing and maintaining the launch which the club owns. This expense, like all others, ought to be considered in the estimates of the club; and if they cannot be provided for before they are incurred, it is the opinion of this committee that they should not be incurred at all. We believe it to be the only safe policy for each year to bear its own expenses; and we think that, if the club cannot raise money to pay the expenses of the launch, it ought...
...MONDAY.College Conference Meeting. College Public Opinion. President Eliot. Sever...
Last evening Prof. H. B. Hill gave a lecture before the Boylston Chemical Club, in which he showed the effects of arsenical papers on the human system. The question is of practical importance to every one of us, and in the present state of public opinion, it is our duty to agitate the subject as much as possible. In every country of Europe except England, the most stringent laws are in force against arsenical products, and in England, determined efforts are being made for proper legislation. In America, however, public opinion needs further education. It is popularly supposed that...
...great majority of mankind is ruled by the external consideration of their actions and is not impelled by internal life. Some are controlled by public opinion so that they stoop to do vile things because others do. They are simply like atoms in a mass, drops that follow the current, who do not own their own souls. They are often afraid of losing their place in society, often their "gentlemanliness" stands in place of their "manliness. In our age, culture is regarded almost entirely as intellectual. This has its dangers. The danger is that it breeds a haughty reserve...
COLLEGIANS AND THEIR ROOMS.Some of the students are of the opinion that it will be just as cheap and fully as pleasant to rent rooms in boarding and private houses near the college. They think the increased price of, say $5 a week for an unfurnished room is pretty steep, and quite a number of them have signified their intention of giving up their rooms on the campus. They say they can procure any quantity of large and well-appointed rooms near the University for from $5 to $6 a week...