Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale possesses. A few evenings ago a large mass meeting of the Yale students, under the presidency of Prof. Richards, met to discuss the project of a new gymnasium. According to reports five or six hundred members of the college attended the meeting, and great interest was taken. The opinion of Prof. Richards - and his opinion seems to have been shared by the students - was that it was too great a burden upon the students and unjust to parents and guardians that so large an expense should be borne by the students. It was resolved that this canvass should...
...attend; we have religious societies; we listen to good preaching. It is true that we have our little dissenters and deists, our little men of every stamp, but we have also men and students who are not little, who do not affect an unnatural unbelief. And they represent Harvard opinion. Any claim to the contrary is a misrepresentation of us and of the truth. If cheap publications must comment on us, let them do it with at least some knowledge of facts and less use of the perverted...
...opinion seems to exist at Yale that "the revival of foot-ball at Harvard ought not to be regarded as diminishing our (Yale's) chances of success, but rather as an opportunity of scoring another victory." This opinion may be regarded as "merely an expression of individual opinion," and is therefore of the greatest value as such! We learn, however, from the same competent authority that "some of the strongest men on the last foot-ball team will be left to retrieve Yale's former prestige." Harvard's reputation, alas, is rapidly becoming a mere shadow and an exhalation...
...Harvard boys are the worst lot this side of Yale." But suffice to say, we do not agree to this verdict. We are not a "bad lot." There are as noble young men among Harvard students as ever despised cant and followed the right. Why then is this unfavorable opinion? It is simply because the rank grass has overtopped good, the tares grown over the wheat. Judged by such a standard as this verdict would necessitate, we would all be athletes, dudes, and writers of sentimental pessimistic verse. This, of course, is absurd. Let us then be judged with fairness...
...much time necessarily was consumed. Hasty action would have been very undesirable. But we did expect the committee, taking all the time it wanted, ultimately to arrive at some conclusion, to suggest some remedy. What are the facts? Two resolutions have been passed that represent in their tenor student opinion, it is true, but only in a manner that any self-evident assertions would. We surely did not need a Conference Committee to tell us, after three months of discussion, that the present marking system of the university is unjust, and that it ought to be changed. What we wanted...