Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Undergraduate opinion is sometimes worth much, often worth very little. Especially is the critical opinion of the worth of a fellow undergraduate a hazardous basis for just judgment. Just how much of the character-sketching done in last fall's reports on individual Freshmen written by that species of underclassmen known as Student Advisors possessed any real insight must remain a matter of conjecture...
Upon only one count, can the present test of opinion go astray, namely, inattention. The cards are not incidental but central to the establishment of the dining hall. The pledges of sufficient men, say six or seven hundred, will bring it into being, in all probability, over the summer. Failure to receive the requisite number of pledges, on the other hand, must be taken as a student negative on the plan and will prevent all further progress until another year...
...situation is admittedly complex. The Episcopal Temperance Society illustrates an attitude, and little more, in the great welter of discussion and morass of mystified opinion. There is only the hope that Father Time may be more quick and bounteous in his revelations than he usually seems...
...question of who should go to college and who should not is one of recurring complexity, and any expert opinion on the matter is always welcome. The suggestions recently made in the American Magazine, by Dr. Faunce, president of Brown University, is that a candidate for higher education determine his fitness by answering a short list of questions intended to analyze his purpose in life, his interest in study and his capacity for mental effort. Dr. Faunce's questionnaire begins with the inquiries, "Do you like to study, (not merely read) about an interesting subject?" and "Do you like...
...opinion that Harvard has found it necessary to change the date of the annual Brown contest and, after doing so has not been able to fit the game into another place on its prearranged schedule...