Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Considering what you get out of it, you certainly spend an awful lot of time in college," was the opinion of Clarence Darrow, famous criminal lawyer, when interviewed for the CRIMSON. "I have no doubt that college is beneficial to some, but if, as it appears to me, the aim of the majority of men is to make money, it is a great waste of time...
...very manner in which President Borno of the Republic of Haiti administered his firm rebuke to Senator King must reassure the forces of security and of prosperity. Nor has the staunch helmsman of our ship of state obscured the issue by expressing an opinion. It has been made clear that such had manners as Senator King displayed are not to be tolerated. Senatorial interference with the noble work that is being done by Secretary Kellog and his marines might lead, if allowed to proceed unchastened, to all manner of trouble. President Coolidge by his stern, courageous shonce, and the Transcript...
...narrow religeous and patriotic tenets which make possible such action are expressions of that reactionary and Czaristic spirit which is the worst enemy of modern American education. It regards the school and the college alike as primarily the strongholds of traditional opinion. He hides under the mask of 'good citizenship". He makes impossible any other educational system than that which trains the students in acceptance, a prettier way of saying that it straight-jackets the intelligence. What then becomes of the Tutorial System, of the Honors course, of Dr. Meiklejohn's college, all of which are in fundamental opposition...
...majority opinion said that New York's scalping regulation law violated the 14th Amendment: "No state shall ... deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process...
Pittsburgh's "safety director," one James M. Clark, churchgoer, announced that the concerts would not be permitted. Music-lovers murmured. Safetyman Clark, officeholder, melted and said he would get an opinion from the city solicitor. But last week the orchestra, ''in preference to entering a religious controversy," canceled its own plans, explaining 1) tha Sunday had been chosen for the concerts because most of the civic musicians were employed by theatres on week days; 2) that the prevalence of organ recitals, park band concerts and radio jazz on Sundays in Pittsburgh, against which there had been...