Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee appointed by the Overseers to discuss the chapel petitions have written to the Christian Brethren for their opinion as a body on the subject. The society voted in favor of the non-compulsory worship...
...Ernest Renshaw wishes to acknowledge the receipt of a racquet strung with india rubber strings. Owing to the absence of any name he has been unable to express his thanks to the donor. He also regrets he is not able to form any opinion of the value of the invention, as only two strings remained in the racquet when he received it. - Pastime...
...tennis courts were opened yesterday, and were also used by a few enterprising players, who were over anxious to get to work. Tennis is the great college game, and in the opinion of many people is the branch of athletics most deserving of encouragement, in that it has for its devotees such a large majority of college men. With the beginning of the tennis season, which will probably open with all its former activity at the close of the recess, must come also the much talked of "shack." Any measures, which the Tennis Association could adopt, to rid the college...
While the other Yale papers have seemed to urge the lacrosse players at Yale to join the league, the Courant, being of the opinion that such a plan is inexpedient, seems to think that Yale had better drop out of the league altogether. The Courant says: "If the men who play lacrosse would like to re-enter the inter-collegiate contests of skill, they certainly should be encouraged, but why once in they dropped out has never been satisfactorily explained. As soon as '87 leaves college the lacrosse players also leave, for most of these are from that class. Suppose...
...great deal of this quality (i. e., not poetic imagination). As our next door neighbor says: 'A man stuck on himself is the most pitiable of mortals, for he knows not the infinite pleasure of calling himself an ass." The East, on the whole, has too good an opinion of herself. Harvard, Yale and Princeton so frequently announce that they cannot be beat that many gradually believe them. We, too, should like to believe so, but somehow or other we can never induce ourselves to consider a man good who has first to say that he is good...