Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...short stories our college papers demand as a rule. The Monthly has seen this defect, and on account of its appearing at intervals of a month, has been able to present its readers with uniformly good stories, albeit rather gloomy at times. Now, in our humble opinion, translations like Mr. Santayana's "May Night," and Mr. Mitchell's "Little Dauphin," are worth twice to the college literary world what a namby pamby love story, or a wild medley of lunacy and brain fever would...
...carry it beyond this point, though still within the bounds of amateur sport, it is not easy to make a decided statement. The reports are conflicting, some authorities appearing to have seen a great many evil results from athletic sports, effecting the heart, while others are of the opinion that their injurious influences have been much overrated. To begin with, not all who enter athletic sports have their hearts examined, and even when they do, it is very seldom that a physician is thoroughly satisfied with the examination he has made. But let us suppose our athlete has a sound...
...exchange advances the statements that students like to criticise, that faculties dislike to be criticised, and as a result that a college paper cannot give satisfaction both to students and faculty at the same time. These statements, although obviously so foolish, are worth notice because they voice the opinion of many unthinking readers who consider that the sole aim of the college press is to "grind" the faculty and carry on a sort of warfare against the existing powers...
...universal opinion seems to be that a course in contemporaneous history would be of almost incalculable value to students in general, but especially to those who intend to make journalism their profession. The number of men who intend to devote their lives to journalism is by no means small; there are no technical schools for journalistic training, such schools would indeed be impossible from the nature of the profession. But now when our newspapers are recruited largely from college bred men, it is no more than right that colleges should add all in their power to prepare men for their...
...than one thousand students are gathered together, there is no dominant religious sect, and the probability is that there will never be one. In this state of affairs it is manifestly unjust, and certainly impossible, to force any one set of religious views upon a community so divided in opinion. There are three types of American colleges, distinguished from each other by their religious policies. First, the uncompromising denominational college, in which graduates and instructors have been under one influence all their lives. The man of broad religious views objected to them because it divided the Christian house against itself...