Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...this issue the Advocate begins a series of articles intended to aid Seniors in choosing their future occupations. Professor W. F. Harris sets a high standard of practical helpfulness for the series in discussing "The Consular Service as a Profession." He holds the encouraging opinion that a return to the spoils system is "too remote to prevent any ambitious young man from fitting himself for the office of consul." Coming directly to the point of interest to college men, he tells how to become a candidate for consular examinations, what posts beginners may obtain, and what hopes of advancement they...
...regards the value and importance of cheering in support of the University team, there is room for much difference of opinion. One view is that the game should be played by the teams with no help from the spectators except by spontaneous applause at all exhibitions of god playing. On the other hand, some say that is the business of every member of the University to do his part toward winning the game. According to them, those who cannot make the team should get together in the bleachers and by organized cheering at all times express their encouragement and hope...
...with a larger spice of personal reminiscence, might follow this one. Some of the chapters might be: the President as a summer housekeeper, by a native of Mt. Desert; the President as a guest at Harvard Clubs, by old graduates all over the country; how I have changed my opinion about the President, by certain Harvard non-graduates; the President as a receiver of gifts, by the givers; and the President as host to foreign visitors, from all over the world. Then might come another series, giving the student of today some more definite idea of the changes in this...
...trust is not too obviously: Advocate. And yet some such formula as this, it seems, would frequently apply. The current issue, at any rate, is not above mediocrity. Not that the contributors always lack ideas; in two cases at least subjects of importance are broached, on which undergraduate opinion just now is desirable. The real trouble seems to be that the work is not carefully thought to or logically arranged, and that the product of an idle moment as allowed, without revision, to creep into print. Under such circum stances the business of the reviewer is all too tame...
...Bonaparte began his lecture by saying that a man must be fitted for the profession which he is going into; he must have some idea of his own capabilities and tastes in order to form an opinion of what profession would best suit him. If a man has fallen in love with a profession he will go against the grain if he tries to follow another. There must be a conformity between the man and the law or his profession, just as there is a conformity between the tools and the profession for which they are used...