Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...manifestation has come in the form of a public letter to the 1500 odd signers of the petition from a committee of the Faculty, asking some extremely pertinent questions as to the general feeling towards scholarship work. It is the endeavor of the committee to get the student's view-point on the question of rank, degrees with distinction, and the relative worth of scholarship as compared with other pursuits; and the information will be of great value...
...Council is taken as a matter of course by at least one man who evidently believes in the usefulness of the Council and its ability to cope with all questions of undergraduate importance. This is by no means the first time that suggestions have been made with a view to having the student body give some concrete appreciation to high scholarship each year, but little has ever been accomplished in that direction. It is too often the fate of the scholar to be appreciated by very few men other than a limited group of teachers with a few intimate friends...
...less than a month now before the last race of the season in view of which all of the preliminary work, including the two victories, has been done. At present the crew is by no means a perfect one, but they are rowing splendidly together and with a few weeks of training, especially for the longer distance, should acquit themselves creditably on the Thames...
...time when the elective pamphlet appears, it seems desirable to call the attention of students, particularly of Freshmen, to the fact that the most satisfactory results of College study are often secured by men who plan their work with a view to candidacy for a degree with distinction. (See Catalogue, pp. 508-518). For this gives them a chance to fulfill the popular definition of a liberal education as one which results in knowing a little of everything and all about something. The best way of deciding what kind of distinction to try for has been found...
...view of immortality of man which I shall set forth is, broadly speaking, that of the Buddhist religion. But Buddhism, like many other great religions, is divided into main churches, and sub-divided into sects; we find conspicuously two great main divisions, commonly called Northern and Southern Buddhism, the former having its recognized centre in the north of India, in Nepaul, the latter in Ceylon. We are to discuss tonight the teachings of Northern Buddhism...