Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...meeting which empowered Princeton's delegates in the matter had not a dissenting voice. Columbia was welcomed as a member, and it is the desire of all Princeton men that Yale lay aside her accustomed feeling of suspicion and stubbornness, and sympathize with the movement. It is the universal opinion that she will be compelled so to do, or be boycotted by the trio of colleges...
...five at Yale and five at Harvard - is thought a good scheme in New Haven, and one that would create an extraordinary interest in the sport and be of great financial advantage. The president of the Yale team thought favorably of it, and one prominent athlete is of the opinion that if Harvard was similarly inclined, Yale would almost unanimously vote to join her. - Boston Herald...
...Camp, Walden, Terry, Richards, Peters and Corwin) opposed the plan strongly on the ground that Yale would be one in three. But the cause of the opposition which grew up among the majority of men was both a sympathy for the interests of the smaller colleges and a prevailing opinion that while Yale had little to gain by the change she had all to lose. For these two reasons, then, Yale has acted as she has, and as to whether she is willing to enter any new league, consisting of a larger yet limited number of colleges, as has been...
...proposed to establish, would be of great service in bringing together the instructors and students and in making their mutual intercourse more intimate, and more valuable to both. A change like this in the spirit of our college life would do much to help Harvard in the opinion of the outside world. Prof. Barrett Wendell, who spoke from the floor, laid stress upon the importance of making the fees small, and advocating the admission to the club of all good students of one year's standing...
With the birth of Harvard's economical magazine and the expected advent of a law journal, a few long-felt but till now unexpressed opinions - the subject of which the article on college journals in Monday's issue made an introduction - seems to come with appropriateness. What are college papers for? Are articles written by college officers and outsiders or by students, or by both, the desiderata? These are the two questions, the answer to which - and it will be noticed that an answer to the first is necessary, and sufficient to answer the second - would go far toward setting...