Word: view
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That is to say, in a population of some 120 millions there is a little group of 140,000 who adhere to a brand of delusion known as Christian Science; and, in view of the fact that it is a delusion that fosters the withholding of toxin antitoxin from children choking with diphtheria, it is to say that even...
Professor Rollins is from the evidence of his examination not much interested in the spirit and essance of poetry. His interest sems to be centered in novels, chronology and similar bricks and mortar of literature. This is after all a good and typically scholarly point of view: but it is to be questioned whether this sort of scholarship is the aim of many of those who listen to his lectures. (Name withheld by request...
...logically the official recognition of the gap. This conclusion is based upon the hypothesis that every man who takes his studies seriously and spends the requisite amount of time on them should be capable of attaining at least a high C average. If this statement sounds too startling in view of the number of men on probation and those who maintain a precarious low C level, it is only necessary to point to the inroads of athletics, outside activities, society, and perhaps an apathetic attitude which in some cases keeps the most capable men from spending even two hours...
...mellow phrasing that has little in common with laboratory coats, Bunsen burners and quantitative analysis. The sciences had been thought of as a multitude of parts, subdivided and resubdivided in an arrangement with so few cross relationships that the tutorial system, which aims to give the gazing student a view of the whole field, had little application here. Teaching the young idea geology, for instance, has been a matter of cumulation of courses like Economic Geology, Paleontology, and Physiography...
...long been, and, it is hoped, long will be one of the crowning glories of Harvard University. It is only under a regime which gives the individual entire freedom, that full development can take place, even though it be at the expense of a few missteps. And in view of this the liberally minded cannot but applaud the action of the Student Council and the expression of the Administrative Board...