Word: standpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jones' essay, entitled "American Aboriginal Documents", is a satire on American universities and deals from a standpoint of centuries hence with excavations and research conducted then on the present sites of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Poe's contribution is a brilliantly colorful account of the difficulties which a foreign student must encounter in coming to an American University...
...Treasury has attempted to give the Bureau time to cure a few million bills by issuing the silver dollar or "cartwheel." But this endeavor failed dismally, as the public has for some reason become greatly prejudiced against the largest silver coin. From the Treasury standpoint, a circulation of silver dollars would be quite considerably cheaper than one of paper money, owing to the constant expense of engraving and printing new bills for old. Thousands of dollars could be saved annually if 40,000,000 silver dollars could be kept in circulation. But this is apparently a useless wish. Back...
From the literary standpoint, the reviews are poorly constructed, weakened with verbiage, and sprinkled with immature bits of egotism. The style is over strained by being so spicely sophisticated. I quote at random and perhaps, therefore, unfairly part of a few passages...
...From the standpoint, therefore, of the theory on which our system of government is based, there can be no valid objection to the exercise of this power by the Senate...
...through the Brooks House. In all the councils of the House since he laid down his office, his knowledge and sympathy have been invaluable. He gave without reserve of his time and energy. His judgment was almost unerring, his candor and directness refreshing, his humor and appreciation of the standpoint of the students a great aid. In the notable development of the House as a center of charitable and social work in the application of religion, the outstanding thing was Beane's own sincere and simple religiousness and his feeling that true religion was the basis of the work...