Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminaries for the Pasteur Debate will take place this evening. Candidates will speak in English for five minutes on the subject: "Resolved, That, as opposed to Mr. Siegfried's opinion. French industry may adopt American methods of mass production without fear of compromising its individualistic advantages." The judges, Professor R. L. Hawkins '03, and Dr. A. C. Sprague '21, will choose six men from the group appearing tonight, as the ones who are to speak in the finals on May 2 in Paine Hall...
...that can be done . . . when revenues show sufficient permanent increase. There is a growing demand for a further reduction in taxes on earned incomes . . . with which I have always been in sympathy as is evidenced by the recommendations the Treasury made to Congress. . . . The Treasury is still of this opinion and will be glad to see these principles [of tax reduction] still further carried into law whenever revenues justify such action...
Solemnly before these most astute and potent moulders of opinion, Viscount Reading came out in unqualified endorsement of the Lloyd George scheme for putting Britain's 1,400,000 unemployed to work on roads and public buildings?a scheme widely denounced as impractical, impossible, vote-getting tosh (TIME, April 1). "I consider these proposals a brilliant and workable means," said Rufus Daniel Isaacs, "of making an end of a canker that has been eating into the nation's heart...
Such an action on the part of the Scholarship Committee indicates the belief that student opinion on these matters is worth consideration. It may be that the results will bring no real benefits, but if the practice is continued it may set a precedent for future student participation in the government of the college. One certain outcome of this innovation will be that the faculty will for the first time be able to see in what way their efforts effect the members of their classes. This action of the Scholarship Committee tends to bring the governing body of the college...
...Harvard CRIMSON there are still innumerable columns devoted to such questions as "Was or was not the House Plan railroaded through the Faculty?" Every professor at Harvard has been harried into hibernation, until he has expressed his opinion on this "greatest change of the century." And woe befall the poor man who hesitates and qualifies...