Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Peabody said, experience certain difficulty in standing against impurity in college life, because we are influenced to such a great extent by the opinions of others. This consciousness of self asserts itself in our thoughts as well as in our actions. "We experience nervousness, for instance, when we are called upon to speak in public; we read a literary criticism in a magazine before we form an opinion about a new book; we ask the opinion of an intellectual scientist before we express our views upon religion." Again, in our social relationships in college life we are influenced too much...
SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Public Opinion as Factor in Industrial Consolidation," Mr. V. Custis. University...
...dependence of the University on students' fees, in spite of the enormous growth of the invested funds, President Eliot names the two obvious resources; raising tuition fees and procuring a larger endowment. The former resource he believes should be held in reserve and he cites in support of this opinion a resolution just passed by the Board of Overseers to the effect that "it is not expedient at the present time to raise the tuition fee of Harvard College." A larger endowment he declares to be the pressing need of the College, not only to meet the recent deficits...
...most of them before the important games take place." President Eliot concludes his discussion of football with these words: "On the question, whether or not football victories do, as a matter of fact, contribute to the growth and regulation of a college or university, there are evidently two opinions. But if a college or university is primarily a place for training men for honorable, generous, and efficient service to the community at large, there ought not to be more than one opinion on the question whether a game, played under the actual conditions of football, and with the barbaric ethics...
President Eliot points out that, contrary to an opinion that exists in some quarters, the professional courses show an increase in the number of their students in the current year (1904-05) and that the School as a whole "has always been, is now, and is intended to be, a place for steady work and the most strenuous endeavor on the part of both its teachers and its students." That this is not an empty claim is indicated further on in the report by the fact-that the average working time for the four-years' course in mining and metallurgy...