Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...find out, you know." No go. He came in just the same. The only result has been to give him a great idea of my superior wisdom, the consequence of which is that he appeals to me for confirmation every time he screws up his courage to venture an opinion on some abstruse subject, the weather for instance. "What do you think, Jack?" is his favorite formula at present...
...earnestly beg Harvard's aquatic chiefs not to be beguiled by like nonsense. There is but one good way to row; all others are bad. Why did Oxford beat Harvard? Because she was stronger? Not a bit of it. Calm and unprejudiced critics have never held but one opinion, namely, because she rowed better and with more judgment. Why did Yale beat Harvard last year? For precisely the same reason. Nothing can be farther from me than to be personal in my remarks. The anguish of defeat is too great to be augmented by harsh words; but defeat, though unpalatable...
...have told you more than once, this is a world where many things should be thought and not spoken. A safe rule is never to express an opinion when you can possibly help it; and this rule ought particularly to be observed when you find yourself differing from the popular world on a subject which is not of vital importance to the salvation of either party concerned. As a religious friend of mine once observed, who had been thrashed for expounding to a fast friend his views of the other world, it is well to learn the grace of silence...
DURING the last two weeks the Class-Day question has been carefully, and for the most part calmly, debated. The possibility, and even the advisability, of continuing the old class organization and fete day has been seriously questioned. Such radical differences of opinion have been expressed that now the expectation of a peaceful reconciliation exists only in breasts naturally buoyant with hope. The situation, as we understand it, is this: a large number of those who made up the coalition party in the class meeting, which caused the whole trouble, see now that they misjudged those whom they regarded...
...would be sure to be unpopular among the great body of the students. Harsh measures, as has been well shown on various occasions, only stir up ill-feeling between the ruling and the ruled. At the same time, wanton destruction of property is in fact condemned by the public opinion of the majority of the undergraduates; and if certain notions of etiquette did not seal the lips of many, this public opinion would be so generally expressed that the persons whose animal spirits find a vent in these periodical disturbances would discover that their proceedings are generally considered rather foolish...