Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROFESSOR JOHN MCCRADY has handed in his resignation as professor of zoology, in consequence of the conviction that there is an irreconcilable difference of opinion between the University authorities and himself as to the scientific standard to be maintained in the study of zoology, and because he is conscientiously unable to adopt a more popular standard than that which he has hitherto maintained. - New York Evening Post...
...college press is unanimous in the opinion that the present editors of the Era have succeeded in shaking off every trammel except that of overweening self-conceit, and that the value of the paper has been indirectly proportional to the success of its editors...
...secure such a change would require a well-signed petition to the Faculty, or some other decided expression of opinion from a majority of the students. To such a plea the Faculty would certainly yield, since this is a matter that concerns the students only...
When the Advocate makes the sweeping statement that the Faculty are not proper subjects for satire, it forgets that a very short search through its back numbers would show that this opinion is either something new, or that it has many times been disregarded in the paper that expresses it. In point of fact a large part of the humor of every college publication is at the expense of the instructors. It is natural, too, that this should be the case. The members of the Faculty are the public men of what the Lampoon calls our "little world...
...orchestral pieces, the March from Mendelssohn, at the beginning of the second part, was in our opinion by far the best. The peculiarly calm, finished, and classical style of the author was rendered in a style which showed careful practice and artistic appreciation on the part of the orchestra; but to Jungmann's "Heimweh" we cannot conscientiously say justice was adequately done. The rich sweet chords of Fesca's trio for piano, violin, and 'cello by Messrs. Deane, Taussig, and Apthorp were happily expressed, though more practice would undoubtedly be followed by greater proficiency...