Word: outlooks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...important a part in undergraduate life as they formerly did scarcely invites rebuttal. The activity mania, rampant not so many years ago, seems to have subsided with all the suddenness common to excesses, along with hazing and other manifestations of misdirected energy in the youthful. The increasing maturity of outlook of the student has taken from activities much of their previous exaggerated appeal, and placed them in their true perspective. When Professor Rogers attempts to deduce from this, however, that non-academic interests will dwindle until they disappear, one must take issue with...
...SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK-Bertrand Russell-Norton...
...calm and rationalistic eye, preaches to an increasing congregation the virtues of Reason. Russell's lucidity has rarely faltered, but of late years his published sermons have seemed at times a little thin. Now he admits his recent books were "mainly pot-boilers"; but says of The Scientific Outlook: "For my part, though I says it as shouldn't, I think it is a very good book." Its purpose: "To show up all the scientists who talk about religion, all those who make superstition a substitute for science." Russell obviously enjoyed writing it; it makes good reading...
...compete with the ordinary historical or economic narratives of the U. S. With only four brief footnotes, few formal statistics, a broad brush Adams paints a rapid but effective picture, tries at the same time to show "how the ordinary American . . . has become what he is today in outlook, character, and opinion.'' Such oft-told stories as the events of the Revolution and the Civil War, Washington at Valley Forge and Lincoln in his cabin Adams does not retell; but he comments on their causes, their effects on the national character...
Despite the gloomy outlook of the hotel business last week neither Lucius Boomer nor Oscar was downhearted as the day approached when Banker Charles Hayden would start the register with his name and be given credit card No. 1. Average figures from the depressed hotel industry did not daunt them, for, they were glad to assert, the new Waldorf-Astoria is not an average hotel, cannot be judged by average standards...