Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...spite of these disadvantages, for the last few years the study of English has rapidly increased and now takes a front rank in the curriculum of the southern academies and colleges. A gentleman who for ten years was an instructor in English at a southern college gives his opinion as follows...
...study of law and medicine. But it seems now that the importance of this action has been over estimated, and that it offers but another proof of the tenacity with which the members of ancient corporations cling to existing institutions even in the face of reason. Public opinion in Germany is undoubtedly moving against this academic verdict. A book has just been published which shows that the opposition to such an artificial attempt to restrict the popular tendency is no longer confined to the interested party itself, but is shared even by a man whose well known impartiality and established...
When, however, the statement is made that "in the opinion of Harvard,-a neutral body,-Yale is the champion for 1884," we confess that the fancy is carried a little too far. Harvard expressly stated, in a mass meeting of the students, that she did not agree with nor approve the sentiments expressed in the letter sent down by three private individuals to Yale, and we would call the attention of Captain Richards and the Yale News to this statement again. We do not care to enter into any controversy between Yale and Princeton. The foot ball championship has been...
...championship, which she has held for the past three years, and these are the reasons for her position: First, the score, which according to the referee, was 6 to 4 in Yale's favor at the end of an hour and seventeen minutes. Second, the referee's own opinion, publicly expressed, that, while declaring the game a draw, he considered Yale the victor; and it was his personal desire, conveyed to the Intercollegiate Association, that Yale should be awarded the championship. Third, the opinion of the Harvard delegation-a neutral body-that Yale is champion...
...disputes nor disgraced it by brutality; that her whole course in foot ball has been to benefit and open the game as much as possible; that in all beneficial legislation she has taken the initiative; and that by the spirit of the rules of the Association and in the opinion of Harvard-a neutral body-she is champion at foot ball...