Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fanatical. Manifestations of Providence can too easily be misinterpreted in the light of human pleasure to be at all times a trust-worthy guide. To a college student, moreover, whose experiences are more or less apt to be limited, the camouflaged nature of the revival meetings present an attractive outlook; when, however, all his thoughts become interpretations of divine will, his mind can scarcely be receptive to the more tangible facts of education...
...future but rather to measure the experiments, the actions and the progress of men through the cold and uninspiring microscope of fact, statistics and performance." Then he said he really believed that "the Western World stands upon the threshold of a new era of advancement. . . . And the outlook socially, as well as economically and politically, is hopeful. Education and learning, decrease in poverty and the ideal of equal opportunity are providing the impulses of ambition in our peoples...
...winter season will open officially with a call for all candidates for both Freshman and University teams to meet in the Soldiers Field locker building on Thursday, January 3 at 3 o'clock. Coach E. L. Farrell, when questioned by a CRIMSON reporter yesterday, declared that the outlook for a successful winter season was very good, but that he hoped the squad would be considerably increased after the recess, for with the facilities the University now has for winter track both on the boards and in the cages, a large group of men may be accommodated...
Last summer, not a little political capital was made-by Republicans as a warning against change, by Democrats as evidence of bad stewardship-out of a report from the Budget Bureau that fiscal 1929 might show a deficit of 94 millions. President Coolidge now announced that the outlook was for a surplus of some 37 millions. Neither of these figures is very near the $252,540,283 surplus which was estimated for 1929 in the President's Budget message last December. Last week the President explained that the discrepancy was due rather to increased expenditures than to decreased revenues...
...face value, this suggestion was but a blunt, practical expression of an ideal often mouthed but seldom practised by Congressmen after a general election. But coming from whom it did, it led to reconsideration of two little-discussed features of the Democratic outlook. One feature, forgotten in the turmoil of the Smith defeat, was Vice President-Reject Robinson's continued presence in the Senate. With President-Reject Smith retiring to private life and Governor-Elect Roosevelt taking his place in New York, the party's official Number Two Man had been all but forgotten by commentators...