Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...receive many congratulations on his speech quashing the Political Levy Bill. The London Times said, ". . . his success, which was very remarkable, was due at bottom to his own qualities, and in particular to that broad instinctive sanity?sometimes verging on sentiment, but never on pettishness?which always directs his outlook on national affairs...
Feeling free to discuss the composition of the Overseers because of his retirement from the Board three years ago, Judge Grant mentions individual members in 1895, at the time of his first election, and in 1924-25, "none of whom", he says, "could seem-utilitarian in his outlook save to a person who regards all distinguished men as enemies of learning...
...individual. It warns against the tyranny of dogma with its attendant loss of liberty. If any doubt the fruits of this, let them regard the records of Harvard men in all departments of our national life, public and private. This has resulted in a certain maturity of outlook, a certain aversion to collective thinking, an aversion that infuriates those trained in a different school. But the glory of Harvard is not the point, but on the centrary that here in this great republican democracy teeming with population yet to be formed and tormented by the problem of a material prosperity...
...plea is for a change in the attitude towards studies and for the breaking down of the preeminence of the extra-curriculum activity. I believe that the extra-curriculum activity, as it does little more than restrict the undergraduate's outlook on life and fill him with empty conceit, fails to prepare him for the future. At present, the undergraduate condemns studies in his anxiety to become great in college. But which is more to be desired: fame in college, or fame in later life...
...some time, wheat prices have appeared weak and unable to stand at $2.00, much less advance beyond that high price, although news concerning the wheat outlook was in general encouraging...