Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have no part in the administrative duties of the College, restricting themselves to an advisory and social capacity," declared L. D. Peterkin, a member of the Classical Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a tutor in the Department of English and the Classics, when asked his opinion of the duties of the tutors under the House plan. Peterkin speaks from experience gained as a tutor in the University for the past four years, and from knowledge of the English system in practice at Oxford and Cambridge...
...wonder if you really mean to imply that the belief in the efficacy of public opinion as an aid to law enforcement is the same as relying "upon the efficacy of a species of faith healing". That seems to be your meaning in your editorial "In Vino Controversiae...
...that is reliance upon an act of faith, then every one who says that only an overwhelming public opinion in support of a law can insure its enforcement is guilty of saying that a law can only be enforced by an act of faith...
...major inference to be drawn from the two analogous statements is the unanimity of opinion that too much consideration cannot be given such an important building program as that ahead of the University. The Harvard of the future is concerned much more than the Harvard of today. Any hasty one-sided consideration of the impending architectural lay-out is likely to cause many unforeseen difficulties...
...felt obliged to report to the President further that in my opinion he would have no chance of acquiring a permanent Director by calling an anthropologist of position from another institution, unless the Museum had first been modernized and placed in efficient condition...