Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...trainings that is awake in every undergraduate, who is maturing as a university should mature a man. In the various activities in the University, in which men are gathered from all corners of college life in pursuit of some common object, the permanent good that results from a university standpoint is little unless they have led to an interchange of ideas and sympathies between the individuals who take part. A university, and especially a university in a republic should be for its undergraduate students a clearing house of ideas and ideals. Natural personal intercourse is the first requisite for this...
...endowment of the Department of the Ethics of Social Questions, on the condition that it shall be named the Francis Greenwood Peabody Endowment Fund. The significance of the gift is that it ensures the permanence of the courses of instruction in social and economic questions from the standpoint of ethics, the object for which Professor Peabody has made such memorable efforts during his professorship in the University...
...From the standpoint of fielding, the work of the Harvard team was very good. The men covered their positions thoroughly, threw accurately, and, with one exception, were sure on flies. Two fast double plays were made, one in the fifth inning, by Leonard and Randall, and one in the next inning by Kemble and Randall. Coburn, while he did not strike out an unusually large number of men, was extremely effective. He allowed Pennsylvania only one hit. In the fifth and sixth innings, however, he was rather wild...
...closing the main argument of the affirmative, N. M. Thomas said that still another standpoint from which to argue the question is that of logic,--the almost inevitable consequence of existing conditions. The old education was the result of old conditions, and the colleges have had to adapt themselves to new conditions almost against their will. Mention has already been made of the inevitable trend of education towards election. The field of valuable knowledge is so broad that no man can traverse the whole ground. Choice must be made. Who shall make it? We are compelled to answer...
Under the auspices of the Philosophical club, Professor Borden Parker Bowne, of Boston University, will speak in the Fogg Lecture Room this evening at 8.30 o'clock, on "A Report from the Philosophical Field." Professor Bowne will describe the philosophical situation and outlook, treating the subject from a theoretical standpoint...