Word: standpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Above all we can place ourselves on a higher plane of vision by striving to look at things from a loftier standpoint. We can endeavor to rise above our own sentiments, surroundings and purposes until they assume their true proportions in a wider horizon. We can try to think how they would be regarded by a Being infinite in knowledge, in love and in sympathy with all sentient creatures that now are, or hereafter will be, living upon the earth. No doubt we shall still be in error, because we are finite, severely limited in mind and heart...
...accurate quotation, then I want to take sides against Dr. Kennedy. After an advanced study of the child at the University of Michigan, it seemed that the weight of opinion was that the child is not a miniature adult. The child may be a rudimentary adult but, from the standpoint of the psychologist, the child undergoes a decided change before it becomes an adult. The adult is not an enlargement of the child, but a development from it, in which new traits may appear and old traits disappear. If the child is merely a miniature, you could predetermine what...
...again and start the price-swing going upwards. The Messrs. Livermore and Howell are alleged to have made between them some 22 millions on the operations. Some Europeans lost much money, others saved much by buying necessary wheat shipments when the price was down. From the U.S. standpoint, this latter feature was not creditable to the Messrs. Livermore and Howell as an "economic service," for the U.S. farmer lost a fat slice from prices he had hoped to command this month and next...
...From the standpoint of undergraduates no more suitable report could have been submitted than that which was made by the Committee of the Alumni on Athletics. A new baseball cage, a new boat house, a swimming pool, new squash courts, even a skating rink, a golf course, and a polo field have been recommended. Student opinion has long urged these objects as real needs. Several of them have been promised repeatedly, and the swimming pool for one seems to have received all but the official sanction of the Corporation. Now that the Alumni as represented by their committee have taken...
...think the part will be great fun," said the pretty young dancer, commenting to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The play is one of the most interesting I have ever seen and from the standpoint of the cast as well as that of the audience, it should be great sport. My, you don't know what telephoning I had to do last night to make arrangements for staying over. Of course, I was delighted at the offer to be in the cast...