Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...much for the facts. I should like to add an opinion based on some study of Memorial Hall affairs, as to some of the important causes of the unsatisfactory condition there during the fall. Chiefly because of the large plant and the attempt to pay off the debt too rapidly Memorial can furnish board cheaply only when a large number of men are eating there. Owing to unfortunate experiments in the past, the number was small even at the beginning of the College year. The food under the "fish and egg" system was unsatisfactory to many. Some left the Hall...
...Board of Overseers and be elected to the office of President of the University. The Corporation is practically unlimited in its selection and it may decide upon someone entirely unsuspected by the public or by other members of the University. Nevertheless it seems to be the prevailing opinion of graduates and the public press that the choice will fall upon some one of the men mentioned below...
...prestige as the foremost of American universities. As regards courses of instruction, the article explains that Harvard offers more than any other university, and her faculty is the largest and most eminent in the country. Interesting statistics concerning the elective system are given, and Dr. Slosson is of the opinion that the system is on the whole advantageous. The writer believes that for earnest students who desire to complete the course in three years special classes should be provided. Harvard has been the leader in the establishment of professional schools, among the latest of which have been the Graduate School...
...hard for me to adapt myself comfortably to the fact that the Advocate is no longer an organ of College opinion. Can it be that the internal economy of the University is so perfected that there are no continuing evils to assail, no grievances so lasting as to call for the use of heavier journalistic ordnance than the daily musketry of the CRIMSON? I must look, it is clear, at the Advocate not as a semi-monthly spokesman of College views, but as a carrier of light waves--of verse, stories, and the occasional essay. If the old Advocate...
...years; we have had four governors of the islands in eight years. The news that we receive from the East is neither complete nor exact. Only the reports that are allowed to be sent are what we get in this country. There is no method of expressing public opinion and feeling in the Philippines; as a result our officials, secure in their distance from America and without the ever-threatening power of the press, do whatever they please...