Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While there is much that is praiseworthy in the Crimson's scandalized attitude toward the tutoring school business, nevertheless, in the opinion of one who has no personal or practical interest in whether such schools flourish or perish, I sincerely believe that the Crimson's campaign is predicated on the fallacy that the Schools are an evil per se and that if the schools were abolished, the stables would be cleaned...
Altho I feel that the majority of our graduates share the above opinion, I am in this letter speaking unofficially, and as a private citizen Very sincerely yours, Edward D. Toland...
Professor Albig summarizes many experiments in the measurement and control of public opinion. And there have been some darbs. In nine colleges from Stanford to Columbia, students' attitudes toward Japan and China were tested, after which some were given a bombardment of Japanese and some of Chinese propaganda. Each group changed its collective mind. At the University of Iowa, opinion-testers pretended that an Australian ex-Prime Minister Hughes was in Iowa on a lecture tour, planted 15 editorials approving him, 15 opposed, let the favorable editorials be read by one group, the unfavorable by another. Of the group...
According to the Student Opinion Surveys and your editorial of April 14th, American students hope to save democracy by stopping Hitler. . We were supposed to have saved it in 1918. The new crop of totalitarian states stretching from Russia to Germany was the saving. Of course, if we are good myth-makers and word-twisters, we can believe in the democracy existing in Russia, Poland and Rumania today...
When this investigation was first proceeding, there was raised the question of whether or not to allow Varsity men to compete in sports closely akin to those in which the Varsity men made their mark. And it was the unanimous opinion of the Committee that such men added much needed dignity to the House sports. Under the plan now proposed this dignity has been given serious consideration and was one of the cornerstones upon which we built...