Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...football season is at hand. Will a regenerated opinion show that Harvard can win as well as lose; or will the old lackadaisical spirit-occasioned, we believe, by a morbid fear of criticism-influence those who ought to offer their services and prevent them from making themselves known? If the new students of this year will be brave enough to care nothing for the feelings which certain badly bred but omnipresent persons are rude enough to show, then we may never hear again that remark which has become now extremely trite, "Oh! They don't know how to play foot...
...current number of the "Century" magazine, Julian Hawthorne and Henry Eckford have contributed timely articles on the subject of rowing by the undergraduates of our American universities. One point upon which the two may be considered to agree, although there is considerable divergence of opinion between them in other matters, is the uselessness and absurdity of the college crews-maintaining the secrecy that they attempt to regarding their movements and performances prior to the time of the annual race. As one of these authorities says, if the young men were attempting to jockey the public, and, so to speak, inveigle...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: For some time the impression has been gaining ground both in and out of college that the financial concerns of our various athletic associations, and especially of the boat club, are not and have not been managed with sufficient economy and care. The general opinion seems to be not that the management is needlessly or wilfully extravagant, but that the want of economy arises from the careless way in which expenses are incurred and accounts kept. The manager and captain are almost omnipotent in financial arrangements, and the mass of contributors have no opportunity whatever of passing...
Longman's Magazine gives the following account of some English cricketers who watched a game of base-ball at Philadelphia recently, and then proceeded to form a somewhat poor opinion of the batting qualities of the base-ball players. Cricketers are apt to despise what is called a full-pitched ball - that is, one which does not touch the ground before it reaches the bat. The cricketer can have but a poor eye, in fact, he must be but a poor player, who cannot hit such a ball; and though if he is careless about it, he may readily...
When the game was over, and, which is more, decided (for base-ball has at least one great advantage over cricket, it very seldom ends in a draw), the English cricketers were asked their opinion of the play, and were obliged to admit that so far as they could judge the batting seemed very weak. "That is a compliment at any rate to the pitchers," they were told. "But to say the truth," one of them replied, "the bowling - or what you call 'pitching' - seemed weak too. Every ball was full pitched, and any one can hit a full-pitched...