Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moderate tone of the letter in speaking of the foot-ball team, will hardly change anybody's opinion as to what result Yale expects from the game here to-morrow. Contrary to the opinion of our correspondent, we think the disqualifying of so many men in the Yale-Pennsylvania game is something to be commended as showing the increasing attention paid to questionable play by the referees...
...referee; there being no less than five, three from Pennsylvania and two from Yale. A few emphatic allusions, made by the captain of the Pennsylvania eleven, to the necessity of bringing along as substitutes the whole university, in case disqualifying continued, is perhaps a fair comment upon the general opinion of the justness of these decisions...
Columbia, very shrewdly concealed her opinion by constantly referring Yale's questions to Harvard, and Harvard, at a poorly attended and very uninteresting class meeting, admitted Yale simply on the ground of the genally expressed sentiment in Boylston Hall, that '89 could see "no reason why Yale could not come...
...that it is their duty to firmly decline any overtures from Yale '90, and to make their race a Harvard-Columbia race as it has been all these years. The men in the Columbia boat, at the Crocker House in New London, after the race last July, voiced the opinion of the class by asserting that they had never desired Yale in the course and hoped Harvard, as she had the right to decline or accept challenges by reason of her 1885 victory, would decline to have Yale enter...
...Could there not be an informal talk of five or ten minutes added to this service; every morning or so as many times a week, as may seem best? We should like to hear from the college how welcome such a change would be, - a change which in our opinion would make the morning services even more attractive than they...