Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mobilization for Peace, compared to the more spectacular methods of previous years, was an overwhelming success. New Lecture Hall was well-filled; the reception enthusiastic; some of the speakers excellent. But somehow or other, the tone of the whole affair, and of all the speeches, seemed rather negative in outlook, with lots of indignation, horror stories, and descriptions of the futility of war. No-one thought of suggesting a conservative...
Calm deliberation about the great problems of practical Peace-neutrality legislation, commercial entanglements, imperialism, large armaments, munition makers,-may prove of great value to those who participate in the meeting, and may even spread interest and a reasonable outlook toward these problems in the wider circle of the Harvard Community...
...outlook of this course is completely unhistorical. Oriental, Sienese Renaissance, and Contemporary American Art are drawn on indiscriminately so long as they illustrate the general principles which the course tries to emphasize. These general principles, deduced from a large number of slides, illustrated from a small number of original paintings from the Fogg and Boston Museums, and above all, concretized by practical work in the "laboratory", combine to make the students intensely aware of aesthetic values, not only in painting, but in thousands of instances in everyday life...
Until Stahley makes his cut, which will probably come this week, the outlook is still confused, but reduction in numbers will clear the air, and allow a clearer view of this year's Freshman prospects
...advice the unfortunate Freshman must hearken to in his first few weeks, he can remember one small but significant idea, and retain it throughout his college career, he will have done well. No amount of teaching, no imposing array of facts, should lead a man to alter his fundamental outlook on life until he is convinced that his new view will serve him every bit as faithfully as the old. The fact that in the light of a single book or a single lecture he is unable to account rationally for beliefs held since childhood should not lead...