Word: opinionative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcing this action, the Council stated that "The Committee is to ascertain the opinion of both undergraduates and graduates concerning the Department, to discuss its general educational policy with particular attention to the emphasis on the historical approach to art as opposed to actual creative art, and to examine the positions of comparable departments in various other colleges and universities...
...Although opinion differs as to the advisability of the methods used, even Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, sole person to take issue on the statement, agreed that the plan might be applied "to all laboratories and courses dealing with problems that could be used...
...States to pursue. One course is approved on the whole by the majority of Congressmen coming from west of the Mississippi. The other course has, with exceptions, its most vociferous supporters east of that river. Presumably both groups represent the feelings of their voters. And the division of national opinion rests on different interpretations of present world events...
...correct course, nor in the future, either, for the die will have been cast, and there is no telling where the other course would have led. Unfortunately there is no set dogma from which one can choose the proper course; it remains for the President, Congress, or public opinion quite arbitrarily to decide...
Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, also speaking at the meeting, held that a policy of isolation means certain war. Our present armament increase shows that we realize the inevitability of our participation in a coming struggle. Friedrich's opinion was that we must play the "balance of power game" in order to ekep war from breaking out abroad...