Word: view
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...multitude of similar references to God, to prayer, and to Divine Providence, together with his interest in the Church, were all mere matters of political policy, is to attribute to Washington a monumental insincerity which is unbelievable in the absence of any real evidence to support that view of his behavior...
...charge that the college undergraduate lacks initiative, made by Professor Oliphant, formerly of the University of Texas, lacks confirmation in view of the spirit exhibited by a dozen Indiana students last week-end. It seems that the students were imbued with the desire to witness the Harvard-Indiana football game, but lacking funds, they were forced to make the thousand-mile trip via foot, flivver, truck, or anything that came along headed in the general direction of the Atlantic Ocean. They saw the game...
Irrespective of the fact that the effort was probably too great for the result obtained, and that the initiative was displayed in a field outside of the general run of the college curriculum, it is nevertheless true that these men had a definite object in view and they persevered until they got it. Their display of initiative was spectacular, receiving much approbation from enthusiastic supporters of Indiana's athletics, and a corresponding amount of censure from the more level-headed ones who questioned the wisdom of sacrificing three or four days of classes for one football game. In either case...
...points out the obvious fact that not only the less interesting lectures but also those which come on Saturday and Monday mornings are liable to extreme neglect. The modifications, however, which are being made in the lecture system at Harvard must necessarily make some change in the point of view of both undergraduate and dean. Where lectures are cut short six weeks, the undergraduate is more likely to learn all he can through lectures before being thrown on the more difficult, if more scholarly, road of his own resources during a reading period. And where a student's work...
...past few years, Williams worked as laborer in American and Europe to get the laborers' point of view, and has recently been investigating problems relative to the fruit industry in South America...