Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Department has taken steps to come into closer relations with the commercial interests of the country, and with that view invited delegates in December last from the leading commercial and trade organizations of the principal cities, with a view, not of creating a new national board of trade, but a small delegated body with a permanent seat in Washington, which would represent the entire commercial and trade interests of the country, and would not only co-operate, but be constantly in touch, with it and other departments in promoting the best interests of commerce at home and abroad. The governments...
...than does the Eastern man; and is perhaps more able to take things for what they are worth. Whereas if he were in a Western college or in an Eastern college composed largely of Western men, he would be in a more congenial atmosphere from the beginning, and his view-point would change but little. I do not mean to say that the atmosphere here is uncongenial to Western men, but it is likely to be so at the beginning, due to the misunderstanding pointed out above. In short, then, outside of the academic advantages which he gets here...
...Minton Warren. Beside the usual reviews of books, Professor Hart's co-operative series of histories, "The American Nation," and Profesor Huntington's "Pulse of Asia," receive fuller notice. A short, but pithy, article by Mr. Volkmann on college entrance requirements discusses the ques- tion from the point of view of the preparatory teacher, and gives strong reasons for such a revision of the requirements as shall permit more thorough work in the schools. The reports of the work and play of the University and of the doings of its graduates are as full and interesting as usual. Especial attention...
...present number of the Lampoon is distinctly profitable. The business managers have scored on the editors; from their point of view it must pay to advertise. The literary and artistic efforts of the number are directed toward the automobile, but writers and artists must still be under the depressing effects of the mid-years, for there is a failure to catch the joys and humors of the horse-less age. The front page, it is true represents Lampy's Trio speeding away from the dusty cloud which spells "gloom," and the centre-place tries to show that the automobile...
...Suzzallo, in his address on "Education as a Social Study," said that what we need in education is the establishment of a social point of view. The school is a secondary institution which brings out the best of society, and social conditions influence the subject matter of the schools. In education, two things are in opposition--the idea of culture, and specialized training. Culture must be relative to social conditions. We need to remember in education that teachers must be broad-minded and that thus democratic efficiency can be effected...