Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here, the people wouldn't understand and we couldn't make them understand. They want Farm Relief and they want it at once." Chairman Snell therefore prepared a rule to receive the Farm Bill from the Senate and send it to conference with this proviso: "In the opinion of the House there is a question as to whether 'the Senate's Debenture Plan' contravenes ... the Constitution and is an infringement on the rights and privileges of the House. The action of the House in this instance shall not be deemed to be a precedent...
...Congress must be obeyed," declared Justice McReynolds in rendering the majority opinion from which dissented Justices Holmes, Brandeis and Stone. Justice Butler, as a onetime railroad attorney, did not participate in the case. The Court's ruling set at naught the valuation placed by the I. C. C. on the O'Fallon, relieved the road of paying to the U. S. a share of its profits on that valuation and sent rail stocks jubilantly sky-rocketing in Wall Street. C. & O. spurted up 23 points...
Captain Jimmy Reid of Harvard's track team, speaking at the Varsity Club dinner Wednesday night, lauded the coaching of Eddie Farrell, giving it as his opinion that the reasons for Farrell's success traced, first, to his knowledge of the technique of the events he teaches, and, second, to his ability to inspire the students who come under his wing...
...discussions for one general end according to their individual capacity,--not for several unintegrated courses along the way. The tutorial system, in other words, still seems to be superimposed, to integrate the course system; whereas ideally the course system should merely supplement it. This seems to be the prevalent opinion. But one system can only grow at the expense of the other--hence, lower required courses...
There would be no better way for Harvard men to form an opinion on the merits of the House Plan than to check off the proposed details of operation with the avowed principles behind the Plan. To do this facts are necessary. What the relations of the Master and undergraduates will be, how the residents will be chosen, whether or not Freshmen will be included, and a host of similar questions all must be answered before a definite conception of the Plan can be formed to match the physical progress being made down by the Charles...