Word: standpoints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Witkin '14 treated the question from a purely practical standpoint. Government employees acting in postal or railroad positions are identical with employees of private corporations, and as such ought to have the right to seek an amelioration of their condition. Past history has shown that parliamentary action is useless. Hence the only satisfactory method is by open strike...
...president Lowell says in the introduction: "The University Register gives by far the best view of the organization and manifold activities of the College from the standpoint of the student, and therefore it is eminently fitting that it should be published by a body representing the students themselves." To this we heartily agree, and wish to add, moreover, that the Register is one of the most useful works which the Student Council has yet accomplished...
...shortened to two weeks, a change which should appeal to those who look at fall rowing merely as a source of healthful exercise, as well as to those who take part in it for the practice and experience to be obtained. The trouble with dormitory crews from a rowing standpoint is that men who really know something about rowing are in the same boats with the totally inexperienced. In the past these crews have worked for almost a month before the races, and then it was so late that there was naturally little enthusiasm in starting up the entirely...
...annual profit from the tennis courts on Jarvis and Soldiers Fields is about $1200. Considered purely from the commercial standpoint, this item in the report of the Graduate Treasurer of Athletics implies business-like management of a profitable sport. Considered from the standpoint of present conditions it implies something far different; in short, it reveals a situation which ought not to be permitted to continue during the present season...
...moral obligation is squarely up to every member of the University. It is not hard to meet these men, if you really try. And, from the purely commercial standpoint, the business value of a Chinese or South American correspondent whom you have known personally in college may be very great...