Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commenting on the matter yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter, F. W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., expressed his personal opinion that the agreement should be changed. "A start of even a week earlier would infinitely benefit the players," he remarked. "The longer, period would enable the coaches to make the training process more gradual and less arduous. Under the present arrangement, with a scant ten days before the opening game, intensive training is entered into at once, and is carried on at an exhausting pace throughout the season. An earlier training date would obviate the need...
...view of this opinion it is interesting to not some recent experiments of Dr. F. H. Vizetelly, editor of the New Standard Dictionary, who has speak considerable time in compiling statistics of the vocabularies of persons in different walks of life. A high school freshman, according to him, under stands 66,650 words, a 4-year-old child, 1700, and a university senior 94.05 Sophomores have a speaking acquaintance with 70,000 words. An intelligent dog is reputed to know 12 words...
...Good milk, careful seasoning, piping hot and icy cold dishes should be features of the new regime. Students should be encouraged to drop written criticisms of the menu in a box provided for that sole purpose. Those in charge of the dining-halls might thus be informed of student opinion, and regulate the bill of fare accordingly. The majority of students could probably be accommodated at the following hours: 8-9, 12-1.30, 6-7; but a small section of each building should, be open, to accommodate men who for various reasons cannot take their meals at the more usual...
...several other papers, and were agreed that no one essay alone met satisfactorily the problem in all its aspects. In choosing the essays of Mr. Weissberger and Mr. Harlow for second and third prizes the Committee felt that these two plans contained most pertinent suggestions although neither in the opinion of the Committee offered an immediate solution. The suggestions in Mr. Harlow's essay and in that of Mr. Weissberger, regarding the self service at a flat rate and a separate grill with more leeway as to hours of service the judges felt might be incorporated in the plan presented...
Difference of opinion will probably manifest itself in regard to the real efficacy of some of these proposals. It seems quite doubtful, for instance, that the provision against substitutions unless a player is physically exhausted or incapacitated will have the desired effect. This logically would place greater emphasis on the outstanding athlete and corresponding less on the principles of athletics for all and for the sake of the sport which are essential positive elements in any reconstruction program. The other points are by no means novel but on the whole they represent the sanest portion of the reform opinion...