Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...took last week and have voted to place track on an equal footing with baseball and crow by re-establishing a training table for that sport, is decidedly satisfactory to those who were anxious to see a real handicap removed from a team of proven ability. This reversal of opinion may be attributed in no small degree to efforts of undergraduates, who, feeling keenly that an essential spirit of unity in the team was being seriously endangered, brought the authorities to a realization of the track team's plight by a clear presentation of the subject. It is gratifying...
...officer. Many of the best officers that I have known have not been college men, and I have known many college men who did not have the officer's qualifications. An officer is not merely a student; his primary qualification is leadership, and the power to command. In my opinion no officer should be commissioned until he has seen service as an enlisted man, and come to understand the view-point of the enlisted man. If he shows ability as corporal or sergeant, it is fair to assume the he will show the same ability as an officer, and then...
...would seem reasonable to suppose that an expression of opinion in an editorial column ought at least to be serious. The columns of a daily college newspaper are not the most appropriate place for attempts at satire. Editorial candidates who desire to imitate the "Spectator" should at least conform more closely to their model...
...Board of Overseers were to make an announcement some weeks before the conference of the specific matters for discussion, a more satisfactory result might be reached. A meeting of the Council could be called, the question brought up and talked over, so that a more intelligent and unified opinion could be presented by the students than when they arrive to consider a question with the Overseers which they had not previously considered among themselves...
...benefit is revealed now is the opportune time to establish some permanent means of co-operation in the future. A provision might be made to insure the continuation of similar conferences. A committee from the Student Council might meet annually with the Board of Overseers to represent the undergraduate opinion, when that opinion could be of value; or the scheme might be carried even further so that a representative group of undergraduates might meet on certain occasions with the Faculty...