Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instructors reports as heretofore on the results of examinations. Comment on the permission granted distinction men to carry a lesser burden of courses would not be superfluous. It is not that the measure is unquestionably right, but simply that it is at present being earnestly tried at many points. Opinion awaits the results of these trials and welcomes the extensions of them as a boon...
Nothing danced by her own back-yard, America has employed these postwar years in annihilating Europe, in opinion at least. The wealth which brings prestige and the prestige which brings prestige and the prestige which breeds pride have undeniably fallen into American hands. If the pride be sufficient to rationalize crudity to culture, then it may be said that American supremacy is complete, colonialism over, and provincialism truly begun...
...Europeans to study American conduct since the war before continuing their wilful ways, to the late Walter Hines Page, who once wrote that he would not give Long Island or Moore County for the whole of Europe. In between, of course, lies the general run of journalistic and political opinion, spoken by editors and Congressmen, whose respective publics relish a savory Americanism...
...result is explained by the comparative ignorance on the part of the undergraduates of the details of the suggestions, it is impossible to deduce from the results of the poll. A surprisingly large number of ballots were cast with the vote on Prohibition recorded, but with no expression of opinion on the two last questions, and it is probable that the proposals have not as yet received sufficient attention to warrant any conclusive expression of opinion on the part of the College...
...though not in any sense conclusive, are highly interesting. By a vote of 186 to 132 the faculty approved the plan. By a vote of 832 to 636 the students disapproved it. In both cases the margin was so slight, that the only thing the poll proves is that opinion is clearly divided, with the faculty tend-to favor the plan and the students tending to oppose it. It remains a subject for speculation how much of student opposition is due to ignorance or misinformation concerning the proposed changes. Various questions asked by students during the balloting indicate that...