Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gulf between college students and the great hordes of American industrial workers is vast; only in isolated individual instances is it crossed. The social and political outlook of the country's educated classes is monumental evidence of the insularity of the average college graduate in the midst of a nation of factory girls, steel workers, miners and lumberjacks. The humanitarian spirit in America has made great strides in the last half century, but to too small an extent has it been grounded on a just understanding of the actualities of the workers' existence. Even future captains of industry who sift...
...astounded to find, in a famed tabloid sheet, a reversion to the vilest of tactics of journalism-a gratuitous insult hurled at an honored newspaper builder, a sickly slur cast at a courageous weekly. Don C. Seitz, long business manager of the New York World, was the victim. The Outlook was the insulted weekly. The perpetrator of the offense was a scribbler of editorials for the New York Daily News. Mr. Seitz recently resigned his post with the World and the Evening World. He contributed an article to the Outlook. The editor of that publication, in a column called "Contributors...
...outlook for any speedy conversion of these students to political democracy in the extreme form propagated by the international Left is small. Rather, it does not exist. Future development is almost certain to strengthen the present trend, and this especally because of the fact that the recently organized "Hochschulring deutscher Art" has became a powerful factor among both graduates and undergraduates. This organization, which embraces all students of German tongue, not merely in Germany, but also in Bohemia, Austria, Danzig, etc., is growing rapidly. Its aim is 'to develop loyalty, uprightness, nobility of character, and the ability to defend ourselves...
...this high ground the Eli position is of course impregnable. No short, "intensive course, operated on business hours" of Mr. Babson's devising could pretend to offer the acquaintance with philosophy and art, science and literature, the understanding of the relation of knowledge to life, the broad philosophic outlook on problems of thought and conduct, which it is the peculiar attribute of the liberal college to develop. To follow the eloquent flight of the News editorial, "College book learning is primarily instruction in where to get and how to appreciate not only pure in formation, but all the finest ideas...
...best students in the finest colleges--but the mass of students in the general run of institutions from one end of the country to the other, are not seeking these things. They are not getting them. In theory the liberal college has to offer young men a certain intellectual outlook, a certain type of intellectual power. Many students have no desire for, nor even appreciation of these ends. It is a question whether they have the capacity to attain them. In failing on this ground, the college often takes away those humbler virtues of diligence, pertinacity, and singleness...