Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Venerable Robert Henry Charles, 71, Archdeacon of Westminster, erudite translator of the Ethiopia Book of Jubilees: "To find one's pleasure in a sport which consists of torturing and killing a defenseless animal bespeaks at best a thoughtless person whose outlook on life is immeasurably lower than that of the wolf or the tiger...
...CRIMSON has missed the point. The true intelligentsia do not insist on their own particular point of view--that is obviously not the cultured outlook. It is not that any single theory is more correct than any other, but that a four out-of-five agreement on some subject reflects a singularly narrowed, amazingly uncritical, and therefore more or less uncultured, outlock. For just as uniformity predicts narrowness so is breadth inherent in culture. --The Daily Princetonian...
...history, and philosophy. If he has no sufficiently keen interest outside of science, it would in general be better to utilize his concentration to prepare for his professional studies which he can do in a variety of ways. He can then use his other courses to widen his mental outlook...
...what Romanticism is to Classicism. The Taoist claimed that the Chinese fell from the simple life--the ideal--into artificiality about the twenty-seventh century B.C. Man must now return to that idylic state, and few writers have ever set forth more entertainingly what may be called the Bohemian outlook upon life than Chuang...
...convention of the Headmasters Association now entering its second and final day is an impressive gathering of the men from all parts of the United States in whose hands lies the mental development and outlook of rising generations fully as much as it lies with the colleges and universities, the technical and professional training schools...