Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...investigations which have been conducted by the Massachusetts Bureau of Labor have resulted in some interesting facts regarding the health of female students. The commonly accepted opinion that mental labor, if at all severe or long continued, is prejudicial to health, is here refuted by statistics derived from various sources. In one case, seven hundred and four returns made, it was found that seventy-eight per cent of the women graduates heard from, were in good health. Upon entering college, the health of twenty per cent was below par. After graduation, impaired health was found in only seventeen per cent...
...various systems, the tendency being to favor a system of ranking by general classes. The great objection to such a plan was shown to be in the award of scholarships. A resolution expressive of dissatisfaction with the present was tabled, although manifestly in accord with the prevailing opinion. No conclusion was reached, and the meeting adjourned until...
...students should raise a voice condemning this evil. And this voice should be heard in the conference with no uncertain sound. The resolution which was tabled expressing a foregone conclusion, should have been passed, and ought certainly to be passed at the next meeting. With this expression of student opinion, the need of a change will be felt more strongly in the faculty, and a change may thereby be hastened...
...will be discussed at the Harvard Union to-night. The character of the question is such as to draw a large audience, not only on account of the interest always attached to a political debate, but also because it is a question upon which every man has some opinion, and an opportunity is presented to ventilate his views. A debating society such as the Union should aim to debate questions on live issues and of general interest, as it is only by so doing that men are afforded an opportunity to cultivate and exercise their powers of extemporaneous speaking...
...Yale News comments as follows on the Princetonian's report of the Yale-Princeton game. "We are sorry that lack of space prevented our furnishing our readers with a reprint of the last Princetonian entire. According to our modest opinion, it is the vilest agglomerate of ridiculous moonshine and silly bragging that even that paper has been capable of, and this statement is made, be it understood, with due respect to its former record...