Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...with the exception of a certain number who have been taken into custody during the war is as complete as ever; the controlling force is acting under a new name, but that is almost the-only-difference. No effort and no outlay of money is being spared to mould opinion in America to a favorable view of Germany's plight. Nothing is overlooked that might create a breach between Allied troops and the Armies of the United States. It is in these phases of present German activity that the University must take more of an interest than it has manifested...
Colleges, especially at the present time, must take an interest--an active interest--in vital questions. It is no longer enough for undergraduates to put the stamp of their disapproval upon a suggestion; active measures to combat it and to influence opinion are not only expected but demanded. In our undergraduate days, few, if any, of us ever realized that the opinion of Harvard College counted for anything, either in the world at large or in the United States. Due to the war and the moving about of men in service we gradually found out that not only...
...consensus of opinion shows conclusively that the University while being somewhat amused is thoroughly disgusted with the attitude which Mr. Wheel-wright has taken on higher salaries. He has no argument. His letter, which consists solely of incoherent statements and flashy phrases such as "clapped into a limousine" and "by dint of theatre parties and champagne", is amusing enough and well fit for the latest parody on the Harvard Magazine, even when we do not consider that the author meant it to be serious. It gives very good proof that the unintentional humor is the best...
...question of awarding numerals to the Freshman hockey team, in spite of the fact that there was no game with Yale, was referred to the Student Council with the request that they express an opinion in the matter. And the awarding of the "H" to managers of the University football, baseball teams and the crew of 1917 as well as of the 1917-18 hockey team, although there were no competitions with Yale in that year on account of the war, was discussed, and likewise referred to the Student Council...
...visionaries are right, even expert visionaries; but the majority opinion of experts is nearly always, if not exactly wrong, at least a few years behind. And reasonably enough; for the more expert an expert is, the less willing to admit that another expert can be more expert than himself. Doubtless the man who first lit a fire with flints had to do it under the ridicule of experts in lighting fire by the method of the fathers, the rubbing of sticks, who knew that they couldn't light a fire with flints and that consequently no one else could...