Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...article called "Scholarships not Charities" in this number, the other side of the scholarship question is presented. In spite of what the writer says, we feel sure that the College papers have not misrepresented undergraduate opinion on this subject. As to President Eliot's reply to "T. W. H." being conclusive, we were not aware that there could be two opinions, but it seems that there can. Every one whom we have met, on the other hand, thought that the two letters in the Nation of March 13 were conclusive against the President. The writer of this article boldly claims...
...should have considered it unworthy of notice had not an editorial in the last Crimson and an article in the last Advocate indorsed this view. These papers ought to, and generally do, represent undergraduate feeling, but on this important question I believe, with all due respect to editorial opinion, that they have seriously misrepresented it, especially the feeling of those most interested; and therefore I cannot let the matter pass without a protest...
JUDGING from several newspaper articles, there seems to be a misunderstanding in regard to the proposed plan of private instruction for young women in Cambridge. The opinion prevails that a way has been found to admit women to Harvard College. Nothing of the kind has been done. Provisions have been made to enable young women to be instructed by Harvard professors: and if in time the number of such students becomes large enough, a second university may be built up at the side of Harvard which will give young women the same college advantages that young men have at present...
...time" (Tribune); "all that can be said of the arrangements by the executive committee can be summed up in one word, - perfection" (Star); "it will be long remembered by the inhabitants of Newark as one of the grandest events in her history" (Turf, Field, and Farm); "taking the opinion of veteran oarsmen who have attended every prominent regatta in the country for five years past, we may confidently declare this the most successful in every respect ever known in America" (Newark Daily Advertiser...
...subject of scholarships is treated by President Eliot in his late Report in a reasonable and comprehensive spirit, which - as the common phrase goes - leaves little to be desired. That something, nevertheless, remains unsaid, is the opinion of thoughtful persons whose attention has been directed to this subject. For while it is a matter for congratulation that poverty, when it can be confessed and proved, need not bar Harvard to a fairly good scholar, it is still to be regretted that necessitous parties, who are unwilling to proclaim their condition, are tempted to seek the cheaper colleges...