Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences it was voted to send to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, the Committee on Athletic Sports, and to each college represented in the Association of Colleges in New England, the following expression of opinion: "That in the opinion of this Faculty the number of intercollegiate contests should be largely reduced...
...humiliating to have to confess that this sort of thing goes on constantly, though not, I am inclined to believe, as extensively as in some other libraries. The only force that can stop it is the force of public opinion and the determination on the part of the great body of students who are fair-minded gentlemen, that it shall not be winked at or even permitted among those whom they know...
...moment, so far as the demand can be ascertained in advance, are kept behind the Superintendent's desk and are handed out on request and for a limited time. Unless the other books can be protected from depredation by the cultivation of an unmistakable and executive public opinion against a mean and selfish use of them, we may as well send the books all back to their places in the bookstack and confess that a reading room with open shelves is a failure...
...dullness; but when they attempt to found a private library by stealthy and underhand methods, it is time for all fairminded frequenters of the Library, as well as the less studiously inclined, to constitute themselves into a detective agency and bring the offenders under the fire of public opinion, if not of more summary justice...
...Board and the trustees were opposed to the installation of a bas-relief of Dean Shaler in the Living Room. Their desire to preserve the character of the Living Room will appeal to all who are interested in its welfare. But this discouragement, by vote or by expressions of opinion, should not turn us aside from the main issue--that a memorial to Dean Shaler should be erected, and that the most fitting location for it is in the Union...