Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college portion of each of my four years my expenses have averaged $750. Allow me to say that this amount is much larger than is needed in my opinion to go through Harvard...
...McGlynn, in the New York Sun, expresses the opinion that since Cornell is the genuine and typical American University, it will ultimately become the head centre of learning in America...
...class of '88, here assembled in our last business meeting, earnestly desire to record our opinion in regard to certain questions which, in our judgment, closely effect the welfare of the college, and we do, therefore, adopt the following resolutions...
...make Harvard represented in athletic contests, and no longer maintain a position which must indicate a lack of thoroughness and intensity in all the work here. If we fail in athletics we should fail also in our literary enterprise, unless they happen to reach beyond the pale of college opinion. Is not the law of compensation less powerful here than elsewhere? Cannot this be the reason why there is less performance? There is little here to make a man sacrifice his personal affairs and take up the cause of his college. He gains but little popularity if successful, but receives...
...Advocate says that our failure can in one instance be laid at our own door; in another at the faculty's but does not say what the mistakes are. We would say that the error of the students lies in the toleration of an unwise state of college opinion. What the Advocate thinks we do not know, but it seems likely that it must believe as we do in the matter, since the root of our misfortunes is admitted generally to be this same false and evil point of view. We look forward with interest to the next number...