Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...James '99. Professor Baker read a letter from Mr. George Meredith which had been written in reply to an article of his in the Monthly, and in which Mr. Meredith gave some supplementary theories on the novel and a modest apology for his shortcomings as measured by public opinion...
...whole the success of the Weld crews this spring has been unprecedented. While the class races resulted in an unfortunate fiasco, the various crews had previously proved themselves to be very fast, and in the opinion of most coaches quite on a par with the regular class crews of previous years...
References: Snow, American Diplomacy. Forum, vol. 16, p. 690; vol. 12, pp. 714 and 721. Public Opinion, vol. 16, p. 520; vol. 17, pp. 214 and 463. Senate Executive Documents, vol. 55 and 56. N. Amer...
...accepting the proposals contained in the report of the Committee on Discipline, and thereby substituting a new form of procedure for that of posting the names of men handing in written work not their own, will meet with the general approval of the undergraduates. From the first, student opinion has been dead against posting, because (as we brought out editorially over a year ago) it is felt that while the power of the Faculty to summarily eject a man for dishonesty is a just one, it can hardly be said to be within the prerogative of any college administrative body...
...unanimity on the question of posting, and the majority who have favored such procedure, although still convinced of the righteousness of their cause, now feel that on questions of dealing with dishonesty there should be, whatever the conflicting feeling outside, perfect harmony within the Faculty. Secondly it is their opinion that although the moral effect of the possibility of such a punishment as possing has thus far justified its adoption, it is so extreme a punishment that in future the tendency might be to resort to it so seldom that much of its moral effectiveness might be lost. Finally, nearly...