Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the rapidity with which public opinion is manufactured by the press, the wise say that the fostering of an international spirit must be a gradual affair. The more foolish say that fighting is a natural instinct. But that the permanent peace which the world must have and the strong nationalism which has universal dominion over the human imagination are in complete opposition to one another and that one of them must be abandoned, diplomats either do not see or else do not care...
...CRIMSON endorses in no official manner the criticism in the Confidential Guide. It can guarantee only that they are sincere opinions of competent individuals. The reports are representative only in so far as the critics themselves, who may be considered as representing fairly the undergraduate opinion, are representative of the student body...
...professors. He could not possibly carry on his own work and support his family, did not his relatives help him with money. Charles Stewart, Canadian Minister of the Interior, replied softly and noncommittally to Professor M'Lennan's exhortations, thanked him for the ideas, hoped that public opinion would rally behind such men and reward them according to their true worth. Some facts which dull Professor M'Lennan's argument, essential as a Canadian Research Institute is, and valuable as it would be, are these: 1) There is a Royal Canadian Institute. It functions...
...alcoholism, are demolished with an angry despatch. The book "is designed to serve as an intellectual, clean and honest argument for the side which it represents." Whether it is as conclusive an argument as it seems remains (as all arguments without umpires must remain) a matter of opinion...
...them to examine life clearly, to be individuals. If students wish the undeniable benefits of physical training, regimentation and patriotism which service with the R. O. T. C. gives, no instructor tries to dissuade them. Instructors at the University of Wisconsin, as at all U. S. colleges where mass opinion does not quench their souls, are honest gentlemen, not perverters of youth...