Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their power to teach, and not entirely for what they may know. Both professors and tutors should be paid much higher salaries, and the larger courses provided with additional instructors. Finally the alumnus demands, what seems most significant in view of the self-righteousness of present Yale undergraduate opinion, namely, that compulsory attendance at prayers shall be abolished, together with all ranking that depends on marks...
...doubt they will, and the other departments offer similar ones, a very considerable problem looms up in the near future. Can a student elect more than one such course at one time? It seems to us eminently proper that he should be allowed to do this. In our opinion an earnest man could carry two of these special courses, and do in each more than sufficient work to justify his being allowed to enter them. The actual amount of work done would, we think, be five or six times greater in amount, and infinitely better in quality, than that done...
There is also the opinion, which many well-meaning people have, that this college is a kind of athletic training school, a grand place for one to learn how to row or play base-ball...
...lecture-room is not the place for a consideration of style, or for making an acquaintance with an author's writings, until a careful private study of said author has been made. But a lecture should contain all the facts of personal history, so that a just private opinion may be made upon his works...
...whole college would now and then resolve itself into a committee of conference. The frank examination of such a matter as the prayer question by the students and the governing bodies, in common discussion, would be advantageous to both sides. Those in power would see more fully the undergraduate opinion. While we, who do not always refuse to be guided by reason, would certainly get benefit from learning the exact stand taken by the Overseers. We might come to see the unreasonableness of our demands, if they are reasonable. It would be much easier to enforce all rules of college...