Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...independent man was only a straw man, or in case he did exist, that he was a very foolish and ill-mannered creature. We defended real independence, which we said consisted "in fearlessly acting in accordance with the dictates of a manly conscience with absolute disregard to popular opinion," and " in fearlessly speaking whenever there is a principle at issue." In illustration of the second principle we said that when Hollis Holworthy " talked like a Harvard man " about getting drunk, his hearers ought, instead of smiling approval, to " intimate " their disapprobation...
...they came out than they did when they went in. Meanwhile members were rapidly leaving the Hall, and the board was growing poorer. Resolutions were then introduced requesting the removal of Mr. Farmer, on the ground that the students were leaving the Hall. The Directors were unanimous in the opinion that the desertion was caused by Mr. Farmer's incapacity, and they were prevented from saying so only by the thought that such a statement might defeat, as before it had defeated, the contemplated change. Under the direction of Mr. Balch the Hall has become more popular than...
...could have given a more striking example of this "independent man" than "G. E." has done in setting forth at length his own opinions. They are precisely the sentiments which we have so often heard advanced by men who boast of the exalted moral pinnacle they occupy above their classmates. What is "G. E."'s treatment of Hollis Holworthy, whom he seems to consider the typical popular man, but a case in point? H. H. avows his intention of getting "as full as a goat." "G. E.," whose opinion is not asked, intimates, "delicately but intelligibly," that he is "gabbling...
...question is, What is "the thing"? and this we have never been able to solve, though we, like many others, have devoted our life to that end. Some say, "not to study"; others, "to dress well"; the Freshmen think they have found it at the Howard: but the general opinion seems now to indicate light ulsters...
...Probably Mr. H. is speaking from his own experience," said a young lady, "and not of the opinion of his class as a whole...