Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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President Eliot, in his address to the Conference meeting. said that few students imagined the importance to the faculty of college public opinion. as in many cases the faculty were powerless without it. Drinking, cheating and lying are cases where the only cure is in the education of public opinion. Another example is the toleration among gentlemen of foul play in athletics, making an umpire needful to punish it. Howling at "errors" is extremely ungenerous and unsportsman-like. and is never seen in English universities. The chief object of college education is to implant in tellectual ambition and a high...
...that the directors could dismiss the steward without consulting anybody, yet all this is in the "Scheme for carrying on the Hall." Courtesy for other bodies often obliges the faculty to withhold information. When the faculty decided to make the freshman courses elective, the corporation and overseers, in their opinion, had to decide the matter. A member of the faculty handed the scheme to a reporter, and the measure was nearly lost, because those two bodies first heard about it through a newspaper. Many things are rightly done when good reasons cannot be given, and duty to an offender often...
...much as possible in the gymnasium. The cage has not been finished yet and it seems doubtful at present whether it will be ready for use for some time, though it was expected that practice could begin there immediately upon the re opening of college. A rather erroneous opinion of Princeton's prospects for a nine seem to have become current, and one much too favorable to her. There is good material here and Capt. Wagenhurst will do all in his power to develop a first-class nine, but now that the men have gotten down to work after...
College Conference Meeting. College Public Opinion. President Eliot. Sever...
Notwithstanding the rapidly approaching mid-years, none should fail to go to Sever 11 this evening at quarter of seven and hear President Eliot's address on "College Public Opinion...