Word: view
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foundations for the hope that the world, and the United States in particular, is recovering from the era of post-war materialism and is looking forward to a new ideal of international cooperation. A prime requisite of this is a comprehension of the other fellow's point of view. Such educational methods as exchange professorships and international fellowships are contributory factors whose value was recognized by Cecil Rhodes. The general success of his plan has given impetus to similar projects. Harvard has done much in this way in the past few years, and the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...statement of the police who were the only representatives to view the play objected only to "some of the dialogue." That deletion of "some of the dialogue" might have rendered the play fit for presentation does not appear to have occurred to Mr. Casey. This method is generally followed in the case of professional plays that bring objectional lines to the Boston stage. Perhaps it makes a difference who is producing the play...
...offensive to public taste, but theatre-goers are less impressionable than they were, and the effective powers of a play have been exaggerated. Where possibility of offense is confined to isolated lines of dialogue, sweeping censorship argues high susceptibility on the part of the audience which would view the performance. Why the audiences of "Fiesta" should be more receptive than those which attend shows in other parts of the city is problematical...
Within the committee there were two diametrically opposite points of view which could not be reconciled. The four other members of the committee took the view that where the office of chairman is not specified on the ballot, a legally elected body has a right to select its chairman by its own vote. They adduced in support of this view a precedent of at least three years immediately preceding 1925, where this was done. My point of view was based on a four years precedent, namely that the person receiving the highest number of votes should become chairman...
...Longfellow Fund, the income of which is to be used in the purchase of library books in foreign languages to aid in the studies of the belles letters. Since the will is but filed for probate, the library authorities have received no official notification of the bequest, and in view of that fact declined to issue any statement concerning...