Word: standpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poverty, celibacy, obedience and hard work. They sacrifice their personal comfort for a remote and dubious objective, hard to attain, dimly understood, and of more or less speculative value. It is a form of monasticism, a rejection of the world for the edification of the spirt. From this standpoint, the employment of Mr. Haughton at Columbia ought to be regarded as a happy taken of the increase of spirituality in our universities. It would be a mistake to think of it as a concession to the spirit of materialism, to which these mighty stadium-cathedrals are being erected all over...
From the Biological Standpoint...
...Finally", said the speaker, "when approached from the biological standpoint, the theory of superiority seems to be substantiated. Since the time of Darwin, biologists have recognized the fact that moral and mental as well as physical characteristics are inherited. Able individuals have able descendents, so able groups are followed by able groups, and the theory of natural superiority in social classes is upheld...
...Human Inheritance from a Biological Standpoint" will be the subject of a lecture by Professor George Howard Parker '89 in Sanders Theatre at 4.30 o'clock of a afternoon. This will be the second of a series of eight Monday afternoon lectures being conducted for the benefit of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund...
...first place he stated that France had put her shoulder to the wheel and had done seven times the reconstruction work of Germany: secondly, that Germany, the aggressor in the war, had not done her share in their reconstruction; and, lastly, that Germany can pay from an economic standpoint...