Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Overseers to all those who receive degrees from the University, instead of only those holding the degree of A. B., as was formerly the case. This question has been under debate among graduates of Harvard for a number of years, and has given rise to much difference of opinion. The final vote of the Overseers showed a total of 13 yeas, among whom President Eliot was one, against 10 nays...
Early in the fall a great amount of discussion took place as to the merits of the plan proposed several years ago for a University Club. There was a very general expression of opinion by individual undergraduates and by club resolutions, and in every instance the plan received strong support. In fact it was a very difficult matter to discover any opposition. Since then there has been ample time to give the matter careful thought, and the men now in College should certainly be prepared to express decided views...
...that such an association, by influencing the undergraduates, and in turn being influenced by the undergraduates, would tend to create a unity of opinion and action which at present is lacking...
...even so far refused to protect the animals in the Yellowstone Park. The only means of effective preserves now used is by private game preservers and such organizations as the New York Zoological Society. For the future hope is to be expected from the rousing of the popular opinion through the press and through the natural history societies...
Special topics: Public Opinion, XXII, p. 109, p. 440; XXIII, p. 268; Nation LV, 65; Yale Review, VI, pp. 75 6; Harpers Monthly, XCIV, pp. 483-4; Century, LIII...