Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...metaphorical, and are liable to give the public erroneous ideas. Great injustice and harm has already been done the College in this way by the public press, which is only too ready to seize upon such rumors, especially when they come from a paper which claims to represent undergraduate opinion. If the Echo continues to be straight-forward and sensible, and if it will avoid personalities and the vulgarity of the Yale Daily News, it will undoubtedly recommend itself to the best class of our students: all will want to read it; but whether all will...
...member of '79 who supported himself for two years by selling books was thoroughly respected by all who knew him, and any slur cast upon him would have been resented by every decent man. For Mr. Moses King, however, we have no respect, and we feel sure that public opinion is with us. In the name of the students of Harvard College we repudiate him and his Register...
Although the Register has not yet appeared, may we not judge, from the prospectus, what its character will be? Every need which the prospectus promises to meet is already provided for by existing publications. The President's report is a special medium through which the Faculty expresses its opinion on college questions, and is also a source of information about the progress of the University to the alumni; while more detailed accounts are furnished by the bulletins of the several departments, - those of the Library, Observatory, and Bussey Institute. News of unusual interest is published both in the daily...
...induced to write thus because I believe I am giving expression to a very general, if not universal, opinion among students...
...were challenged, whose names could be furnished if it were necessary. Mr. Crawford thinks that I referred to him. He is mistaken. He must surely know the two I did refer to. When Mr. Crawford says that one of those challenged was an excellent oar, he proves that his opinion is not "worth contradiction." For a man to say that a Freshman of a month's standing could be an excellent oar, as we understand rowing here, is absurd...