Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professor James commenting upon the evidence as to the moral tone of social responsibility at Harvard, which was shown in the objections urged against a proposition to form clubs guaranteeing the honor of individual members. Prof. James thought that these objections revealed a very low ebb of effective moral opinion...
...overlooked. Men who know themselves to be honorable would feel that they were degrading themselves if they should call to their aid eleven men to help them ascertain that honor, and they would ask that the same consideration they demand for themselves be given to their fellows. Public opinion is weak at Harvard to-day because it is not allowed to grow. Men are "suspects" the minute they enter the examination room. You cannot make a man morally strong by making him feel that he is watched. Men must be made to know that confidence is placed in their honor...
...accept the five men whom the junior class elected Friday night as their successors. According to the constitution of Chi Delta Theta, the acting editors have a right to call a second and a third election, if the men elected at the previous elections are not in their opinion best fitted to advance the interests of the Lit. Accordingly the '88 board called for another election Monday night, and after two ballots were taken with the same results as at the previous meeting, they appointed the following board, which differs only in one man from that which the class elected...
...CRIMSON takes the liberty of publishing a few extracts from letters received by the Boston Globe in reply to the three questions on journalism-1, what is your opinion of the journalism of to-day? 2, how do you think the tone of the modern press can be improved? 3, what is your ideal of a newspaper? The extracts quoted below are all from gentlemen connected with the University...
...sports themselves so much as to their accompaniments under the present system of intercollegiate competitions. These abuses are extravagant expenditure by and for the ball players and the crews, the interruption of college work which exaggerated interest in the frequent ball matches causes, betting, trickery condoned by a public opinion which demands victory, and the hysterical demonstrations of the college public over successful games. These follies can best be kept in check-they cannot be eradicated-by reducing the number of intercollegiate competitions to the lowest terms. The number of these competitions is at present excessive from every point...