Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...management of the university even thinks that kicking here at Harvard can be improved. The matter has been talked over with the Boston and New York graduates, and they are of the same opinion. They have generously subscribed money for a challenge cup, valued at $250, to be competed for each fall, for ten years, and finally to go to the man having the best record in that time. The conditions regarding the kicking and the cup will be published later in the season. The cup is open to every member of the University and every afternoon, except Saturday...
...spite of the prevailing opinion that college men are gradually drifting away from the churches, a carefully prepared table by Dr. Hodge shows conclusively that not only are collegians as religious as their fathers, but that the number of church members in the different colleges has largely increased during the past century. In 1795, Yale had but four or five students who were church members; today, nearly one-half hold such membership. In 1813, only two or three men at Princeton belonged to any church, while at present, one-half of them are church members. Again...
...more of the nature of a revenue tax than a protective tariff.- Thompson's Protection to Home Industries, p. 105; (d) it retards, rather than advances, the production of domestic cane sugar.- Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1889. D. 934 (e) a reduction would decrease the present surplus.- Public Opinion, July...
Twenty men, representing the CRIMSON, Advocate, Lampoon and the Monthly, met last evening to make arrangements for a dinner of the editors of the four college papers. Mr. Cobb, president of the CRIMSON presided and opened the meeting by stating the reasons for the dinner, and asked the opinion of the men present, as to the advisability of the holding the dinner By a unaimous vote it was decided to bold the dinner, and the business of elections was then taken up. A committee, consisting of the presidents of the four college papers, Messrs. Wardner, Dennison, Dodge and Cobb...
...desired to go further into the matter, we appointed a committee to investigate. This committee has sent a circular containing ten questions to all men here from other colleges. It is not time for all answers to be in, but those that have come to hand bear out the opinion that great injustice has been done to the University. Generally speaking, the article by Quest in the North American Review is shown to contain untrue statements. Our information also shows it was an extremely sensational article and that the class of men which it describes is very much smaller than...