Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doctor of Philosophy; the emphasis has been placed by Universities on accumulation of course credits and by examiners on display of minute factual data. The announcement by the Department of Sociology of its changes in Ph.D. requirements shows a healthy tendency toward requiring rather a broad and mature outlook on the subject as a whole. The changes will exempt the exceptional student from the preliminary and largely factual examination which the department has required of all graduate students at the end of their first year of work. Emphasis will be removed from regular courses and will be placed...
...Tunis, famous for his keen attacks on modern college foibles, directs a satirical barrage against the "Modern Intellectual." He presents as a composite of certain characteristics in colleges today a fictitious professor in a fictitious western university, both devoid of tradition and culture, and both supremely materialistic in outlook. Easterners will experience a smug satisfaction in this confirmation of their oft-voiced contempt for western materialism, but a more critical examination will reveal a disconcerted irony in Mr. Tunis's glowing praise for the dusty culture of the East...
These poems from the pen of a Harvard graduate of 1911, vice president of the Outlook, are full of sincerity, and intensity of feeling. His technique is admirable; the spirit behind the verses is genuine. The title poem "See Prayer", and the opening poem, in addition to the final sonnet sequence are splendidly done. The verses always rise above the ranks of mere competence. Perhaps it is unjust to refer to them in this way. Suffice it to say that here are pleasant poems not destined to immortality...
...Like more than one other magazine which has felt the pinch of hard, times Outlook & Independent last week changed from weekly to monthly for the first time since its establishment in 1869 as The Christian Union with Henry Ward Beecher as editor-in-chief. Fattened but otherwise unchanged, Outlook will bid for bigger newsstand sales...
...outlook for a general reduction in tariffs, either our own or of other countries, is not bright. The League of Nations has failed to effect even a temporary tariff truce. The best hope appears to lie in the method of reciprocal agreements--either bilateral, as in the case of the recent agreement between Australia and Canada, or possibly multilateral--by which reductions are given in exchange for reductions...