Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vote could be taken of all the Americans who have sojourned in the Philippine Islands for two years or more during the period of American occupation, I venture the assertion that 90% would agree on certain fundamental points. The temerity and absurdity of shooting a "threeday" opinion in the face of such unanimity is apparent. One Francis Burton Harrison essayed to ignore the opinions of all Americans resident in the Philippines, as well as the written instructions of the Secretary of War, and he found that he had been looking down the wrong end of the telescope. Not only...
...with Captain Trumbull, a "damn Yankee." For the purposes of the plot Barbara is transformed from the elderly dame of "shoot if you must this old gray head" fame to a winsome flaxen-haired flower of the South. Needless to say, her father opposes the marriage, sah, in which opinion he is supported by all the lads and lassies of the town who vilify Barbara as traitor, overlooking the fact that among their number are many able bodies young fellows who spend their time lounging around town instead of joining the Confederate forces...
Although individual instructors may experiment with section meetings or conferences if they so desire, the consensus of opinion of members of the department indicates that no such experiments are thought necessary for the first reading period. The tutors in the Department will probably not keep any appointments during this period except to have at least one of their number available during specified office hours to handle routine questions of admin- istration or exceptional and unforeseen problems connected with the reading assignments...
...whole it seems to be the consensus of opinion in the Department that, whatever the necessary fumbling of the first transitional experiments, the reading period should offer to students as well as to instructors and tutors a useful change of emphasis in their relations. Instead of being urged and harried into thinking by endless supervision, the student is offered the possibility of a period in which he may, indeed he must, interpret some problems for himself with only the aid that an introduction by lectures and tutors has afforded...
...gradual chrystallization by education of an intelligent public opinion among the young Chinese was declared by Dr. Stuart to be the most effective way in which foreign nations could aid the Chinese. Dr. Stuart, who discredits methods of international interference in Chinese problems, says that the solution must come from within...