Word: view
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON seems to spring from a difference of opinion concerning the purpose of a debate. The writer of the editorial evidently considers debating to be a game, in which victory is the raison d' etre. The members of the Debating Council hold a different, and I believe more mature view. They believe that the content of the debate, and not the decision, is of prime importance, and that debating finds its justification in the opportunity which it offers the college man to express his own, individual opinion on questions of public interest...
...successive days no small divergence in interpreting events at Geneva widened between correspondents on the spot and the press officials of the U. S. State Department. The former developed a pessimistic and the latter an optimistic view of chances that the Powers would agree to reduction of armaments. "Mischievous" became official Washington's adjective to describe what was coming over the cables. Finally the views of the President were made known in the following sense...
...bleakly refused to accept the gift. They gave no reasons, but Philadelphia art circles babbled with conjecture. The trustees were piqued at not being consulted, said some. They were being city-loyal, said others, and saving the work for some Philadelphia artist. Some people who took the trouble to view the Fulop paintings guessed that the trouble lay right there on canvas...
...Music School Building and endowed it permanently. Results were speedy and plainly visible. Hostility and suspicion vanished from among the families benefited by the school's work. They told their neighbors. Friendliness spread. Then it became evident that, from a musical as well as a social point of view, nothing permanent could be accomplished except by a national school of music, with the best instructors in the world, with no entrance qualification but merit. In 1923 such a school opened its doors -the Curtis Institute of Music, named in honor of Mrs. Bok's mother, consisting of three...
Despite the optimistic view taken by those in command of Harvard debating, an analysis of the past forensic season would not seem to justify such an adjective as "healthy". While debating officials paint a radiant future for Harvard debating, the drab record of this year fore-shadows no such promise. On the contrary, the evidence on this season's calendar points in a series of incidents which reflect little credit upon an activity so rich in tradition as Harvard debating has been...