Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pure thoughtlessness, - at any rate, such is to be hoped - and with no intention of infringing upon the rights of their fellow students. But if, by some chance, their conduct is guided by other motives, - motives of an improper kind, it is well to let them know that college opinion justly condemns such acts as theirs, under the name of petty school-boy tricks...
...judges, it was most successful. Spectators as well as contestants entered into the spirit of the affair and showed their enjoyment in the most hearty manner. But we have always doubted the expediency of having sparring on Ladies' Day and Saturday's exhibition was not calculated to change our opinion...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - A writer in your issue of Monday proposed as a remedy for cribbing that offenders be dealt with by a jury of undergraduates. It seems to me he does not go deep enough. If public opinion were not torpid on the subject, most of the cheating would stop at once; - few men would be willing to face the sure contempt of their friends even for forty per cent. A remark I heard lately, made by an upperclassman, is rather a striking illustration of how a good part of the college world looks at these things...
...guilty of cribbing should be tried before the Conference Committee, having right, however, to appeal to the faculty in case of verdict of guilty. There were three distinct lines of thought expressed. A number favored the resolution, feeling that it embodied the best method of acting directly on college opinion; that it would stimulate a healthy sentiment which would blot out cribbing by making it unpopular; and that the students at large when thoroughly conversant with the case would give the plan earnest support. A few agreed in the general force of these arguments, but desired to place a specially...
Several members of the Conference Committee proved remiss in their duty yesterday. Non-attendance at the meeting surely cannot be excused. Those who were present labored under the great disadvantage of being unable to judge with accuracy the actual state of college opinion, on a question which must rest on college opinion as a support. The proposition of trial of cribbers by students, either by those who are members of the Conference Committee or by a jury specially chosen, is well calculated to correct the impression abroad regarding cribbing, but such a system to be successful must be backed eventually...