Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...three distinct attributes which for lack of better terms we regard as distinct personalities. Last there is the eagle, standing for knowledge. As a bird rises above the world and looks from a height over everything, so from the height of knowledge we can take a broad and intelligent view over all things, past and present, and make our service wise and acceptable...
...moments of deliberate respite, he is open, genial, and engaging; but he seldom is at leisure. At work, he seems an immense will, regulated by very powerful and very precise intellectuals. He is grave, austere, self-sufficing, reserved, and the embodiment of dignity. If only his point of view is taken, his position on every question is found to be supported by the soundest logic; but, under the necessity for much action, he seems at times to give the benefit of the doubt too easily in favor of his own point of view. On this account, he rouses such frequent...
When this course of lectures was first started the division line between natural and revealed religion was much more strongly marked than it is at present. Natural and revealed religion differ only in the point of view. Natural religion has to deal with all religion that exists, while everything which touches the sympathies is classed under revealed religion...
Committees from Harvard and Yale have been appointed to confer with the undergraduates of Andover and Exeter with the view to re-establishing the athletic league between the two schools...
...move that may be made in the matter, we express our profound conviction that any action, to be satisfactory in the long run, must be cooperative. If either the students in power or the Corporation insist upon looking at the matter only from their own point of view, the whole question might as well be given up in despair. The Corporation have strength in their position; they can hardly be expected to erect a second hall, if, that done, the problem of a third hall will at once take the place of the old problem. The students have strength...