Word: opinions
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Should caricature be discouraged whether by law or public opinion...
...surprised to see in the last Advocate the expression of the Editors' opinion that the likenesses of the members of the Faculty, which have begun to appear in the Lampoon, are in bad taste. Of course it must be admitted that there is room for difference of opinion on such a point, and my view of the matter differs from theirs. If the likenesses were grotesque burlesques of the features represented, or if the texts placed under the pictures could in any way give offence to the persons whose faces are drawn, I can understand very well that objections might...
THIS week, the Era mourns. The "unsuspecting Westerner" no longer listens to the dulcet tones of Cornell, "one of the most popular colleges in the country, in the opinion of Westerners." The reasons are the Cincinnati Examinations, and the fact that "every State has a dozen monohippic colleges at least, which he feels in duty bound to attend, partly out of patriotic motives, and partly on account of the great risk and expense incurred in coming east." Think of the patriotic westerner debating with himself as to which one of the four hundred and fifty-six "monohippic" colleges he shall...
...another column will be found an article pointing out the true cause of the decline in rowing interest. This article fully represents the opinion of the Editors on this matter, and should have the attention of all students who care to see boating kept up at Harvard...
...most offensive part of his article is his denunciation of what he calls "Harvard contempt," "Cambridge Miss-Nancyism." None of his examples prove anything to his purpose. Of the worthlessness of student opinion as to the character and abilities of a fellow-student we are all aware. Harvard College has placed on its governing board two of the gentlemen mentioned, and has bestowed upon them other marks of honor. Of the influence Mr. Emerson and Mr. Adams have on the thought and opinion of Harvard students it is unnecessary to speak. The charge that Mr. Sumner was impolitely treated...