Word: opinionizing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal system, my inquiries seem to indicate is one of complete editorial control by students, with strict accountability for the exercise of that control both as members of the college community and as citizens. Only in this way in my opinion, will student editors be enabled to develop genuine standards of editorial judgement, discrimination and taste. As long as standards are imposed by faculty or adminis- trative flat they are bound to be educationally and psychologically unsound and to be accepted by students grudgingly...
...squad of CRIMSON reporters, instructed to investigate the linguistic attainments of Harvard Seniors, yesterday invaded the Yard dormitories. Over 100 men were visited and interrogated on their abilities to read French and German and their opinions of the value of the existing Harvard language requirements. When the reporters gathered later in the day to tabulate their results and to compare the expressions of opinion they had, heard striking varieties of attainment and of sentiment were revealed. Former travellers in Europe, concentrators in modern languages, Latin scholars, and the like were factors in a complexity which made definite conclusions...
While the difficulty of obtaining conclusive figures was manifest, the expression of varied opinions was often both clear and emphatic. A few Seniors felt that the present requirements were on the whole beneficial--that even if a student coming to Harvard had no particular interest in languages the requirement of an elementary knowledge was stimulating and broadening, while the man who passed the reading requirement in a language was generally fitted to use that language in his further college work. Some of the men who held this general opinion advocated the raising of the reading knowledge requirement to a higher...
Some of the views set forth can be best expressed in the terms of the reports compiled by the CRIMSON investigators. The following may be taken as typical of three important sections of opinion: "Can read French adequately and feels that his slight familiarity with the mechanics of the German language, while not sufficient to make reading easy, is worth while. Feels that even an elementary knowledge of a language adds not a little to one's culture...
...expressed my opinion on this subject a hundred times. ... I don't want to talk about niggers or booze or Constitutional amendments or anything else...