Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...finance is a science, and I suppose when finance takes industry under its wings it becomes an artful science. One of the chief functions of the Department which I administer is to open up the highways and byways of this artful science to the sunlight of public opinion, and so long as public opinion is sound and healthy it will kill off all the wriggling and squirming vermin that burrow through the moral fabric of our financial and political systems...
...result of public opinion which has been steadily rising throughout the country, and as a direct consequence of Mr. Clark's lecture in the Union last Thursday on the "Congo Reform Movement," a petition to President Roosevelt has been formulated by the Congo Association, and posted in the office of the Union for the signatures of those interested...
...convinced that the existence of an iniquitous system of commercial exploitation and of the most inhuman atrocities in the Congo Free State, has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt. We are confirmed in this opinion by the understanding that you have recently received from our Consul General in that country, an official report establishing the charges which have been brought against Leopold's government...
...December for its sanction, they instructed the committee to consult Mr. C. F. McKim h. '90, of Messrs. McKim, Mead & White, of New York, as to the advisability of placing a clock on University Hall. Owing to the illness of Mr. McKim it was not possible to secure his opinion until late last month, when he approved the plan. However, after examining the detailed design of the clock, which came last week, the Corporation voted against placing a clock on University Hall for fear that it might deface the building. In view of this action, the committee felt that...
...which we already felt assured--that Harvard will play next year just as usual. Yale did not know, as we do, that in the natural course of events authority vests in the Athletic Committee, in whose loyalty to intercollegiate athletics we now have confidence. Such an authoritative expression of opinion as a Faculty vote worried our rivals nearly as much as it did us at the time. It is but an example of the never flagging interest of the Yale undergraduates in Harvard's affairs, and a tacit compliment not to be overlooked...