Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discussions. Many of the questions are deep and as yet unsettled. They are the vital questions, however, of the politics of to-day. English VI. affords an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the current literature that has reference to these subjects of debate, and of forming either an acquired opinion, or original judgment on them. These views may be erroneous and may be discarded by those who hold them; but they do not stand for nothing. They represent reading in live questions and practical thinking upon them. But this is not all that is accomplished. Practice in expressing views, whether...
...such one is fain to believe form the great majority, must rejoice at the high tone which has characterized the much greater part of the communications which have appeared in the columns of the CRIMSON during the recent discussion of "cribbing." One late writer indeed seems to be of opinion that not a few men who are recognized as manly and honorable in their principles and conduct in all other matters, yet regard this as a venial one, not to be judged and condemned by the same rule of honor and justice, as the offences of falsehood and cheating...
...must be put down and exterminated by the public and social opinion of undergraduates as men and gentlemen, determined to maintain free of spot or blemish their own honor and that of their "alma mater...
...unmanly dishonesty at college, and the social condemnation with which it was visited. One of the most successful of Canon Farrar's works - a novel that rivalled "Tom Brown at Oxford" - drew its interest and power from one of those cases, and did much to confirm the manly, public opinion of the students of Cambridge on the subject...
...satisfactory solution of the problem, but there is little doubt that sharper, more interesting work would be elicited by this plan. It is also to be hoped that tumultuous expressions of approval or disapproval will be restrained to the utmost limit. We feel enough respect for our own opinion to believe that if these suggestions are followed the last meeting will prove a happy culmination of the series...