Word: opinionative
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mass meetings held at the respective colleges. Now, the question for us to decide is this: Are we to be cajoled, bullied or otherwise persuaded by Yale to give up our scheme of forming a new league, thereby intimating our intention of sticking to the old league? The opinion of a great many representative men of the various classes whom I have consulted, seems to be that we should not do so. If Yale persists in standing by the old league, then let Princeton, Harvard and Columbia form a league by themselves. Such a league would be a very strong...
...ourselves personally, as members of Yale University, and at the hands of other colleges with whom we have dealings. This idea has been put forward so much in the late discussion of the base-ball question that it has become quite common for certain men to express the unqualified opinion that the whole scheme is one intended solely for the benefit of some person or persons remote from New Haven. For the sake of a large majority, however, who believe in fair motives on the part of our rivals, it is simple justice to say that such opinions...
...strongly of the opinion that this proposed association will be far better for Harvard than the existing one is. To be sure, only four championship games will be played in Cambridge, instead of five, as heretofore. But every one of these games will be of the utmost interest. The games with the smaller colleges have never commanded much attention, as can be seen by the small number of spectators attending them. The number of college games need not necessarily be lessened, for practice games can be arranged which would be as interesting as the championship games have been. In games...
...seeing of the eye, the touch of the hand, and a general experience of classic lands. One of them, by the generosity of Miss Wolfe, was enabled to extend his researches to Asia Minor, from which he brought away a collection of over nine hundred inscriptions which, in the opinion of the great European epigraphists, is second to no other in historical value, and will, when edited and published, add great luster to American scholarship in the person of Doctor Sterrett...
...been suggested that the track might be injured if this project were carried out; we cannot see, however, that ice formed by flooding the field would cause any greater damage than the ice that forms there naturally every winter. We express the opinion of a large number of men in college when we say that some organization should take this matter in hand immediately...