Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have no means at hand in Rome of ascertaining the full title, I don't know whether No. 2816 is the Chronicle of Fernando Lopez or not. If it is so, he that buys it at its weight in gold will make a cheap bargain. . Lopez in my opinion, was the first historical writer of the fifteenth century, and his account of the battle of Aljubarrata is surpassed by nothing known to me in the literature of the middle ages. I hope it will be deterre by some scholar, and that the Sunderland copy if it is really the work...
...says: "It is both right and natural that students should co-operate with the faculty in the suppression of wrong practices; but it could not be expected they should feel like supporting a decimating policy. Nevertheless even so generous a feeling as sympathy should not be allowed to warp opinion, and while we all feel sympathy for those who have suffered for the errors into which customs already existing have led them, we should not allow anything to supplant our honest judgment on the question of hazing...
...face of outside opinion once more," says the writer, "I would not hesitate to affirm that, with the sole exception of the 'swell,' the 'grind' is the least valuable and useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime object of a college course, the man who devotes himself to study exclusively, withdrawing himself from all human interest, is quite as mistaken an extremist as he who neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees...
...very beginning of his term out of a great multitude presented to his uninformed judgment from which to choose. Harvard has 200 courses of study, from which the student must choose a limited number in order to obtain a degree, and many of these are, in the opinion of Dr. McCosh, dilettante. "I should prefer," he says, "a young man who has been trained in an old-fashioned college in rhetoric, philosophy, Latin, Greek and mathematics to one who had frittered away four years in studying a French drama of the eighteenth century, a little music and similar branches...
With due regard for our esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, in its efforts to further the boating interests of the college, we feel compelled to take issue with it for an opinion expressed in its issue of last week. In an editorial advising the boat club to revive the class races in the fall, it spoke as if, because the faculty have prohibited inter-collegiate foot-ball, that sport was to die out from among our college games and be no longer worthy of consideration. It seems to us rather, as if next year is to be an important crisis...