Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...GRADUATE of Harvard, who has attained some eminence, recently expressed it as his opinion that graduates of Harvard were less likely to attain distinction in after life than those of the smaller colleges. As a reason for this belief he referred to the fact that no Harvard graduate of the last twenty-five classes had become distinguished in any profession. The cause of this seemed to him to be the largeness of our numbers and the consequent diminishing of the personal interest and influence of our instructors...
...which is thought by several boating men to deserve some attention. The cups for which the crews contend in the spring and autumn races are of the most ordinary description; those won in the last club-race being little superior to those offered in scratch-races. It is the opinion of prominent boating men that if finer cups were offered there would be more rivalry among the crews, and a greater desire to row on them. Such a result would, of course, bring many to the boathouse who are never seen there now, and could be accomplished at a moderate...
...considers as sound as himself. People who do not agree with him he calls fools. Now of course you do not want to be called a fool. And I think that I hardly need tell you that it is very impolitic to differ from any man's opinion in regard to the proper management of his pocket. Disagree as much as you please in thought, but listen with equal amiability and assent to the spendthrift and the miser. Of course you will not be a hypocrite, - one of those clumsy fools who think that tact and lying are the same...
...largely in the choice of men pledged to vote for a "new deal." But the difficulty to be anticipated is the interference of the Corporation. In allowing the Hall to be used as a Commons, they reserved the right of vetoing any action of the directors which, in their opinion, endangered the health or financial condition of the association. On the score of health, the Corporation cannot possibly find any excuse for using their prerogative. Nor is there any reason to believe that the expenses of the association would be increased by a change. The steward's salary, together with...
...every visitor must be, with the solid intellectual calibre of the professors, but I suppose the summer sunshine and the approaching close of the year's work was having its inevitable effect on the students; certain it is, the recitations were nothing to boast of, and were, in my opinion, much below the average recitations of the Wisconsin University." He proceeds to take the readers of the Press and introduce them, "in imagination," to the "Emerronian face" of Dr. Peabody, - whatever that may be. Then he ventures "to drop in a moment upon that remarkable native of the classic land...