Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...very sorry about that issue" he continued. "If it was the honest opinion of the editors one might excuse it but on the whole I think it was not a wise...
...general opinion among football coaches, it was said, was entirely favorable to the committee's decision. "The new rule," it was explained in a statement issued by the secretary, "will not apply in case of forward passing nor to backward passes which are intercepted before striking the ground, nor will it apply to blocked kicks, which will be played as heretofore...
...communities abnormally thin-skinned? At royal courts the function of the king's fool was to rush in where statesmen feared to tread. It was recognized as one needful to the safety of monarchy itself. The true word spoken in jest might be the salvation of the throne. Shall opinion in a modern university be more autocratic than monarchy, and revoke the jester's license...
...munificent gift; more vital even than the "House Plan" of instruction. What is at issue here is the right of undergraduates to think for themselves, and to criticize the educational experiments of which they themselves are to be the subject matter. Their strictures may be ridiculously conservative. Undergraduate opinion usually is. But independent thinking must begin somewhere, and the way to begin is to start. The University itself is perhaps unwilling that a gift of $13,000,000 should be construed as constituting ipso facto immunity from critical comment by its undergraduates...
...there is one complaint above all others from which the whole of American life most acutely suffers, it is timidity--should one say, the entire absence?--of minority opinion. Yet so needful is minority opinion to the health of democratic institutions that it should be encouraged at all costs. Where everybody thinks alike, there, be sure, is mental stagnation and spiritual death...