Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Having selected a method, the matter of rules for governing is comes up. In my opinion the competition should be in sole charge of the manager of the team in question. The amount of money collected by a candidate should be taken into consideration only as showing the candidate's ability and his desire to work. The actual choice can be made only through the manager's impression of the candidate's ability and general fitness gained by observation of his work and the results obtained. A manager is naturally influenced by the opinion of the captain and the members...
Coach Quinn, the first speaker, expressed his opinion of the favorable outcome of the track events, and emphasized the fact that the meet would not be won until the last point was decided...
Today the undergraduate petition goes to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is not a defiance, not even an opposition; merely a dignified expression of opinion and a request. We trust that it will not be misunderstood. It bears to the Faculty an organized expression of prevailing undergraduate sentiment, and asks that the students' wishes be not disregarded, but that in the ultimate solution of the difficulty they may be met at least halfway. We must now await quietly the outcome of our efforts...
...other truisms, it needs to be constantly repeated. For there is too seldom issued a copy of any college paper which may serve as a model in the three requisites--completeness, accuracy and perspective. The second general function of such a paper as the CRIMSON is to express college opinion. This is done through its editorial articles. It is very important to know the views of the students on all events and policies which affect their academic life. The Governing Boards and the Faculty at Harvard can legislate to better advantage when they have before them college public opinion...
...some form of intercollegiate athletics to interest the undergraduates, the latter would look for other outside interests, which, we believe, would be far worse than the evils caused by intercollegiate contests. But we believe that any permanent remedy lies rather in the direction of a development of a public opinion among the undergraduates which will discountenance the evils and make them impossible...