Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brown and Trinity nines played on Monday last. The game resulting in a victory for Trinity by a score of 6 to 1. The Browns played the best game of the year, for them. The following is the Globe's opinion of Monday's game: - The game was close but not exciting, on account of the most inexcusable errors, poorest coaching and worst base running of the year. Each side tried to outdo the other's poor plays...
...have refrained from making any editorial comment on the recent performance in the Harvard Union, because we believed the fight to be a factional one and therefore not a fit subject for the expression of opinion on the part of a college paper, but later developments have made silence on our part no longer possible...
...EDITOR OF THE EVENING POST: Sir-The popular sentiment in America upon the Irish question is well known. The popular sentiment in England is about the same as that in the United States; but there the student opinion is diametrically opposed to the popular notion. It was with a desire to ascertain whether the America students agree with the American masses or with the English students upon this "burning question" that Mr. Bryce has written to Dr. H. B. Adams...
...Bolles, who, we believe is the originator of the project and on whom the burden of the labor will fall, we extend, although unbidden, the heart-felt thanks of the students, for we believe that were public opinion capable of expressing itself as one man it would call upon some one to perform that very duty which we have taken upon ourselves...
...quarter by a substitute of the 'Varsity nine, conspicuous by his uniform cap, there seemed to be no further room for excuses and I was bound to confess that the old chivalrous tone prevading Harvard audiences on the ball field had departed. I am not alone in this opinion for the condemnation of the afternoon's proceedings by all the graduates with whom I conversed after the game was as hearty...