Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gloomy outlook from any point of view. The undergraduate looks out from his window at the sky and the roofs and the slush,--all a dirty slate gray,--blows his nose and mutters: "Dab it, Cab-bridge is one town that God forgot!" But it is less trouble to go on sneezing and gargling than to go to the doctor's office at the outset. There the service costs nothing and a little properly directed attention can put an end to an embryo cold which is a personal discomfort and may be a public nuisance. With the storm-signals...
...developing influences that college is supposed to direct upon them: Many feeling that they should "get out in the world", grow impatient and either try to hurry through their course in three years, or devote themselves to studies which offer practical training instead of "deepening and enlarging the outlook on life", which must be, after all, the real aim of such an education as Harvard offers. Furthermore the report declares that "Statistics. . . showed conclusively that the younger students were better in scholarship and conduct than the older ones...
...career our youth tend to enter upon their life's work too late, and to lay the foundation for their career at a time when they should be actively engaged in it. That often creates a desire for knowledge directly useful to the neglect of despening and enlarging the outlook on life; an impatience with studies that would have been appropriate earlier, but are irksome when taken too late. Any youth of ordinary ability can be prepared for our examination at seventeen. At that age he is quite competent to pursue college courses, and four years afterward, when...
...cent of the class, and rose to over fifty-five per cent in 1916. This is in itself by no means undesirable. That the men engaged in business affairs, and especially those who occupy positions of great power and responsibility, should have a broad education and a large outlook on life, is altogether for the advantage of the nation. Perhaps our colleges could do no better work than forming the minds and characters of such men; and if the growth in the total number of college students is due to the fact that youths who look forward to a business...
...preparation for the first wrestling meet of the season against the B. Y. M. C. U. teams on Wednesday, January 17, Coach Judson is rapidly rounding his team into shape. The outlook is brighter and the team looks better than any that has represented the University on the mat for several years...