Word: opinions
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...come when the "play" infringes at al seriously upon the "work" in English schools, and sees such great advantages in the increased ability to "work" that he would not cut down the "play" to any extent. The question has been so much agitated at Harvard that the opinion of a foreign authority will at tract some attention on these shores.- Week's Sport...
...useless to express any opinion as to how the crew is rowing, but it is fair to say that they go through their motions with a good deal of earnestness. Hutchinson, Tilton and Finlay are not yet rowing; they will commence soon after the mid-years. Mr. R. A. F. Penrose, '84, who rowed stroke on the crews of '85 and, 86 looked at the crew yesterday. The men will probably row in the tank by Wednesday or Thursday...
...first place our purpose is not necessarily, as our correspondent would seem to suggest, to express the prevailing opinion of the college in this matter, but rather to give utterance to our convictions. The question in hand certainly has two sides; the CRIMSON has taken that which seems to it most tenable...
...willing to enter into one. But we have been given to understand that these resolutions are not final-which presumably means that if sufficient opposition is shown to them, they may be withdrawn. Last year the question of a dual league was proposed and unqualifiedly rejected. Has college opinion completely changed? The only thing to cause such a change was Princeton's action last fall. We expressed our dissatisfaction at this by withdrawing from the foot ball league. Yet even this movement was not at all unanimous at the time, and within two weeks after, many men expressed their regret...
...order to relieve distress to establish relief societies. These societies simply give alms to the people who apply for them and concern themselves very little in any other means of helping the poor. In the last report of the New York society for the relief of the poor, the opinion is strongly hinted that the charitable work done by that body in the last fifty years has done more harm than good-that the whole thing is a huge failure. This comes from the injudicious habit of giving alms. Now the poor are not a class, they are a thousand...