Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this letter news? It is to me merely a selfish attempt to flay an established concern, and an attempt on the part of one who does not even mention his school so that one may form an unbiased opinion on the basis of actual comparison...
...with the Hohenzollerns?thus making sure of Bolshevism. He won't treat as long as the Boches sink ships and have other frightfulness. And he is sending a separate letter to Austria. And all this without consultation with his allies. We discussed all this, and I was strongly of opinion that we should go over to Paris at once and register a note to Wilson putting him in his proper place; but I was not able to persuade Lloyd George, and after lunch he went off to Walton Heath. Either he is seedy or meditating a speech. I am certain...
...question of revising the system at Harvard on a three year basis was first raised when Charles W. Eliot '53 was President of the University. Opinion was divided as to which policy should be pursued, and the issue gave rise to a great deal of discussion. The officers of the University considered the proposals made at that time, and finally the matter was put to a vote in a Board of Overseers meeting. The Overseers gave their approval to the four year plan as at present in force; that the three year case had many adherents among the members...
...Tomlinson has come to the United States chiefly through the efforts of his publishers, who have just put out his first novel. "Galleons Reach." This book has enjoyed considerable fame and has put Tomlinson in the opinion of many in the same position that Joseph Conrad held when his novel "Chance" was published after 20 years of writing...
Tomlinson's name is little known except to those in that group who follow literature closely; yet it is almost the unanimous opinion of that group that Tomlinson is entering a fame closely analagous to that of Joseph Conrad. Conrad had been writing for twenty years before "Chance" aroused the applause of the public. A perusal of all previous Conrad books followed and books long on the market were hailed as great...