Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Conference was influenced by recent cheating, which, as one would judge by their statement, was increasing, is wholly false. Cribbing exists and has existed at Harvard, only as it exists in all other colleges, a method pursued only by a few desperate men, and tolerated through dormant college opinion...
...which is valuable, only so far as it is genuine. While every thoughtful Harvard man will admit this last statement, there can be no doubt that cribbing is practised by many who recognize in it, the only method possible of maintaining their class rank, and that college opinion is not yet outspoken enough to stamp such cribbing as nothing more nor less than cheating. It is this opinion that is unworthy of Harvard, and the question naturally arises, how it can be changed. The faculty is utterly powerless. If more strict police measures are adopted the evil will be stimulated...
...single President who graduated from a college. Judging not from universal statistics, but from the fragmentary data so exultantly paraded by the opponents of higher education, it is safe to say that a college course increases one's probabilities of distinction more than seventy-five per cent. The contrary opinion arises from a popular inference that half of all men are college men and disregard of the paradox that all uneducated men are self educated...
There is also complaint about the inequality of the courses. This is largely a matter of opinion. What makes one course harder than another? It is simply a man's inadaptibility to that course. What is hard for one man is easy for another and conversely. If a man wishes to win honors and fails to keep pace with his competitors, instead of complaining about the course, he should seek more fruitful fields for his labor...
...constitution. 5. The public land policy with special reference to the pre-emption law. 6. The validity of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. 7. Have the principles of the Monroe doctrine been adhered to in the policies of the various administrations, and has the doctrine been misinterpreted by popular opinion? 8. The connection of the church with slavery? 9. Should the United States exercise a controlling influence over any inter oceanic canal? 10. The policy of the United States toward the Indians. 11. The effect on France of the wars of Louis XIV. 12. Discuss the jurisdiction and procedure...