Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republic and the Nation deplored "Stalin's Munich," Hitler's "colossal diplomatic victory." For thousands of citizens who had contributed to the Front simple libertarian goodwill, there was no outlet save a murmur of disillusion over the land. For millions of suspicious isolationists the worst opinion of the Reds was merely confirmed. Famed Editor William Allen White's son William L. reported from Emporia: ". . . No one in Kansas was stunned this morning, and we are doing business as usual. . . . It's much simpler now that the dictatorships are arranged in one neat pile...
...these purposes the first was either an example of current idealism or referred to a contemporary condition of laxness, and the second is now a minor duty of that body. Expressing undergraduate opinion to the governing body of the University is now the Council's main function...
Describing the non-political nature of the Student Council, a past Council President said that "the only way to be a big man on the Harvard scene is to be over seven feet tall." It makes no attempt to control undergraduate opinion, he said, because, in trying to do so, "it would be both wasting its time and losing its prestige...
...position to dictate to the Corporation than the Overseers in the matter of pulling the purse strings and hiring and firing is the Faculty. Although Harvard Presidents have made a practice of consulting in advance with the Faculty on impending changes of educational policy, the Faculty's opinion is in no sense binding on the President...
Until the Student Council was found- ed in 1908, the undergraduate body had no formal machinery for voicing its opinions. As the initiator of many reforms in the College community, it has lately felt a need for a better way of impressing undergraduate opinion on the Administration...