Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...remained unchanged with the exception of a few days since about the middle of April. Although the crew was badly beaten by the Cornell freshmen in their two mile race at Ithaca on May 31, it was simply defeated by an all-round superior crew, and contrary to popular opinion rowed very well. After this race the crew improved in its work at Cambridge, and up to date at New London the improvement has continued. During the whole season the chief fault of the crew has been a tendency to go to pieces when rowing a high stroke, but this...
...desirability of his presence on the occasion of the game with the Yale freshmen, etc., etc. The other and most obvious way of meeting the objection is by allowing a short competition in actual management of the team, calculated to sound a man's real capacity. In our opinion such an objection should not be allowed to outweigh the real benefits to be derived from the abolition of a system rotten to the core...
...Honor versus Proctors," Mr. Kenneth R. Macgowan '11 severely condemns placing proctors in charge of examinations, because that system seems to him humiliating, undemocratic, and unsuccessful. Few will, I think, agree with him. In my opinion, at any rate, cheating in examinations is so rare as to be almost negligible. Nor ought there to be a sense of humiliation because of the presence of a proctor; he is there to protect the honest against the unfair competition of the possibly dishonest. To call that "espionage" is, it seems to me, improper; as well take offence at the mildly inquiring...
...definite done. But it was felt by many that the undergraduates should be the first to act, and that a generous subscription raised by them, although unable to pay for much of the building, would be the proper inspiration for the graduates. In spite of several expressions of this opinion, nothing has been accomplished by the undergraduate authorities, until it now seems too late for any mass-meeting or canvassing of the University. Why it is so easy at Harvard to arouse interest in a plan and so hard to get anything done, we do not venture to explain...
...helm, and the man who has had the control of affairs at Harvard for forty years has given up his active work. So much has been said of President Eliot in the last few months that we are appalled at the task of trying to express our opinion of him in anything like original words. Public officials here and in foreign countries, newspapers all over the world, and private citizens without number have united to do him honor. His incalculable influence in the development of Harvard University in particular and of American education in general is the most noteworthy feature...