Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...class races has at last been definitely fixed. To-morrow evening will close the labor and anxiety which two months' hard rowing has occasioned. Who the cup-bearers at that time will be is yet a matter of varied opinion. No crew can be called the favorite, since the betting men right loyally place their money on their own class crew...
...election of editors for the Cornell Era has taken place at Cornell. They are chosen by a class vote at the end of the Sophomore year. The opinion has been here expressed that the papers of our own University would be likely to obtain better editors by a similar system than by the one now in practice. In reply, we would state that, as it seems to us, a class election would be open to serious objections. A man's ability as a writer cannot be correctly judged from a few articles, which are all that the class have...
Colonel Higginson quotes Voltaire, - "Ideas and beards are alike, - women and very young men have none"; so we do not place much confidence in our opinion in this matter, which is as follows...
...spirit is well sustained, and its roughing efficient. An extravagant view of the matter, however, is only taken in speaking of the ludicrous position which many of the colleges were made to hold in voting against their own interests. As regards those questions on which any difference of opinion can exist, there prevails throughout a temperate tone...
...often that the advocates of any particular opinion are among the first to acknowledge its defects and its liability to abuse; when they do so, a large measure of liberality and fairness should be granted them: this applies very forcibly to the Faculty of the University, whose advice about a plan of study for next year confesses the weakness in the Elective System, while it strives to remedy it. Their suggestions should certainly be received with some consideration by us, as the opinion of men whose desire it is that we should leave college with minds not narrowed by prejudice...