Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...endeared himself to many classes of Harvard men. We still continue to use the name "Union," because in the minds of undergraduates there is no very clear ideas to who exercises final control in all matters connected with it. The undergraduates annually shift the responsibility of their opinions onto the Governing Board, so that their opinion need not be considered separately from what of this body...
...will necessarily be restricted. There is no assurance that, however far-seeing the captain's judgement may be, another year may not see a reversal of his plans. Athletic committees change in sentiment as well as in open to make-up; football committees are as open to fickle graduates opinion as the captain. It may be best for one of these bodies to take the steps leading to the establishment and continuance of a consistent policy. But what we need most is patience--not the sort which endeavors to smooth over a defeat and immediately tries a new coach...
...reasonable time and verifying all the evidence, the names of those who can offer no satisfactory explanation should then be published. The number of men who intentionally allow their tickets to fall into speculators' hands is comparatively small, but there are every year very flagrant cases. Undergraduate and graduate opinion frowns upon this form of making capital out of connection with the University, but as long as the evidence obtained is used only to prevent past offenders from enjoying further privileges, individual consciences alone will regulate the practice. Surely no one who really believes it honorable to dispose...
This discussion brings us to the middle course advocated by R. A. Derby '05 in the Outlook. For the present we can dismiss that article with the statement that it advocates a Utopia--in the opinion of the author--which we are not ready to enjoy, and which is so practically inconsistent with the present sentiments of undergraduates and graduates that its theories should be of interest merely as conjectures...
What I want to disparage is the lethargic satisfaction now running among the majority of the undergraduates who really are the ones to work a change for the better. These continued defeats are doing the College no good, if not positive harm, through public opinion which so often jumps at conclusions; and what they might be I leave to be considered. I should like to see the question of football threshed out in these columns and some action taken, no matter how radical. GRADUATE