Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Ellis Ward, for six years trainer of the University of Pennsylvania crew, has resigned, owing to a difference of opinion with the regatta committee in regard to the stroke to be taught...
...coach, Perry Bolton. They are a set of large, beefy men, in superb condition, and are pulling about ten miles a day. They are raw and ragged in their work in the boat. Their raggedness, however, is so much more noticeable than Harvard's that I have based my opinion as to Harvard's probable chances upon it. A new coxswain goes in the Yale boat this year. Thompson, a little freshman weighing less than 100 pounds, will take the seat in which the tiny Cadwell urged the eight on to victory. Cadwell was a man whose self-control added...
Newspapers have had much to do with making proverbial the general opinion that all railroads are extravagant and the public fails to discriminate between roads well managed and those poorly managed. Railroads in this country are capitalized to the extent of $62,000 per mile. This amount represented stock and all legitimate debts. All in excess of this is generally "watered." If these roads were to be duplicated, $30,000 would at present cover the cost per mile. This estimate (Mr. Hadley's) has been criticised as too high, by some as too low. The question arises how to account...
...ought to call out a large attendance of students interested in the success of the attempt to protect the college against the exhorbitant prices of Cambridge tradesmen. The questions which are to come before the Society this evening are of importance, and there should be a full expression of opinion. The proposed changes, as stated in yesterday's issue, promise to enlarge greatly the sphere of usefulness of the Society, offering advantages to non-members as well as to members of the Society...
...exertion of whatever strength we may possess in attempting to improve as well as to serve the customs and institutions which are in vogue here in Cambridge. In this the CRIMSON will be eminently conservative, and will endeavor never to transcend the bounds of propriety which limit expression of opinion at college as well as elsewhere. We shall keep within the limits which custom has assigned to college papers. But when we have once espoused a cause, our duty in devoting all of our energies to its furtherance will not be forgotten, but we shall "keep pegging away...