Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Much general interest has been taken in the letters on various defects and needs of Yale life, in the opinion of faculty members, which the News published during the present year. The last letter, by Professor W. G. Sumner, takes a rather optimistic view and gives some sound advice to the student body. Professor Sumner has been closely identified with Yale for almost as long a time as any member of the faculty, so he knows whereof he speaks when he declares his convictions that the undergraduates here appreciate learning more than they did thirty years ago, a point which...
...regards relief from privation. Some take the view that in the social struggle the very people who ought to, perish; that both private and public charities are an injury and that men have no right to take the hard earned money of some and give it to the less fortunate. Others, who go to the other extreme, desire that there should be an equitable distribution of goods. But this is pure idealism and we all know that human nature makes this idea impossible. Between these two courses the state must steer an intermediate course. The large sums expended annually...
...both in Europe and America as pupil, assistant and friend. The book brings out very clearly the identity of Agassiz both in its personal and in its scientific aspects. It goes very fully, moreover, into the details of the work of Agassiz, though treating from the point of view of a critical and dispassionate observer. Correspondence, journals and personal impressions of various sorts are freely drawn upon, and no pains have been spared to render this the definitive account of the great naturalist...
Civil Service Reform Club. Smoke Talk. Professor Albert Bushnell Hart. "The Spoilsman's Point of View." Colonial Hall...