Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the year 1926-27. The first of these was the qualifying of every senior for the degree. Secondly all members of the graduating class who took the state board examination in Massachusetts for license to practice passed the examination. Moreover members of three state examining boards expressed their opinion that the 1927 applicants were the best prepared in years...
Commented President Francis R. Henderson of the New York Rubber Exchange: "Baldwin has made a bold move. But in my opinion he has made a move that will, in the long run, be a good thing for the industry as a whole. Lower prices for rubber will encourage its increased use, and increasing consumption will take care of the entire output of the Far East...
There is no variation of critical opinion concerning the St. Matthew Passion. "The deepest expression of devotional feeling that the art of music affords," is the description which critics attempt to elaborate. Lawrence Gilman, able critic of the N. Y. Herald-Tribune, mentioned "pages of sorrowful, solacing tenderness, with their transported beauty, their touching devoutness, their measureless humanity...
There was no variation of critical opinion concerning the performance which Conductor Gabrilowitch presented. The chorus, dressed in black, and the soloists, with a proper effort at perfection, voiced the humble and victorious sorrow of the music they were singing. The tricky imitations which alone delighted its first auditors, the vocal echo of a cock's crowing, were of course not emphasized. The score had been shortened from four and a half hours of playing time to two and a half. Critics agreed that the cuts and emendations had been wisely effected...
...been feared, before the document was presented, that such a subject discussed outside of the great ecclesiastical bodies would offend conservative opinion; or that to avoid this offense, the document would be framed in terms cautious, trite, and without value. That neither was the case was due to the prestige and adroitness of its two sponsors, Dr. Robert Elliott Speer, secretary of the U. S. Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, and the Rt. Rev. William Temple, Anglican Bishop of Manchester. Dr. Speer, since his graduation from Princeton in 1889, has attended many a missionary conference. He could doubtless remember those...