Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year's ago some graduates of Harvard, who realized the lack of unity in our college life, proposed the formation of a University Club. An effort to get an expression of undergraduate opinion on the project resulted in a few indifferent criticisms. As no enthusiasm was awakened, the matter, for the time was dropped. Since then a more lively feeling seems to have arisen. At various gatherings of students a strong sentiment of dissatisfaction with present social conditions and eagerness for some practicable reform has been apparent. The most practicable plan yet presented is that of a University Club. Every...
...very glad to publish today's communication on the subject of the University Club, and especially commend that portion of it which urges a vigorous expression of undergraduate opinion. We repeat our belief that undergraduate sentiment once aroused from its too habitual lethargy, will emphatically favor the plan. As the writer of the communication says, once that opinion is forcibly expressed, the graduates will be quick to take the mafter...
...recent number of Harper's Weekly contains in its sporting column, conducted by Mr. Caspar Whitney, certain allegations concerning Harvard baseball players which it seems to us should not pass unnoticed. The so-called "summer nine black list" is an expression of personal opinion pure and simple. It has no status whatever as an authority. In fact, were it not for the injustice to the individual Harvard men whose names appear there in the issue of October 2 we should not care to pay any attention to the matter. Injustice has been done, however, as Mr. Whitney would know...
...delicate one. In the first place there is no hard and fast rule for testing in all cases a man's amateur standing, and just where, in the intermediate territory between the professional and the amateur, the division line is to be drawn, is largely a matter of personal opinion. Certainly the best guide for Harvard men is the code of Harvard rules, while, as for the column in question, it can accomplish nothing without the support of public opinion, and next to nothing without the support of college athletic authorities...
Best general references: Snow's Amer. Diplomacy; Public Opinion, 22, June 24, July 1, 22, 29, Aug. 5, Sept. 23, 30; Harper's, 87: 737; N. A. Rev., Sept., '97, 379; Pomeroy, Const. Law; Cooley, Const...