Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard "viewers-with-alarm" now view with alarm a disintegration of classes once out of College. It is felt that the spirit of kinship among members of classes under the Crimson banner, and the spirit of loyalty to the old school, are growing less marked than were their wont. Such a feeling makes itself most readily manifest in the failure of Classes of the more recent vintage to make good on all occasions towards the Harvard Fund...
Laughlin applauds the sociological approach of Chase to language and quickly adds that linguistic change must lead the way for social change. Regarding language from the poet's point of view, he recognizes its value as the life-breath of civilization and also its mortality. But language has become the master of thinking, and to check this corruption Laughlin advocates a system of education that will teach words and ideas separately. His ideas no language and experimental writing--which tries to remedy language deficiency--form one of the essays in his volume. It is convenient to criticize the other work...
...much trouble to investigate beforehand the most important problem of his life; he must learn behindhand by experience. This for Methuselah, but hardly for mortals. In any job this man will get but a worm's eye view of one business, and his hours will be too full even to give much thought to alternative occupations...
...will cost $2,000,000. Santa Anita can seat 20,000. Inglewood will seat 25,000. Santa Anita snuggles at the foot of the picturesque Sierra Madre Mountains. There Inglewood was momentarily stumped. Inglewood is close to the sea but not close enough to afford its paying guests a view of the twinkling Pacific. But Hollywood brains soon found a solution. Inglewood will have a man-made chain of lakes in the infield, with fountains and waterfalls for good measure. And then, just to make sure it will be the last word: a revolving paddock...
Senator Vandenburg's comment that the nomination is excellent "in view of the circumstances" is a favorable reflection on the President's good judgment in selecting Reed. Mr. Roosevelt might have picked a senatorial progressive who has fought many political battles for the administration or be might have chosen a brilliant professor who has done much to reshape legal thinking. But such an appointee would inevitably have been scored as just a partisan agent or an impractical theorist. By appointing a lawyer who has won the admiration of administration critics, the President has accomplished his purpose without offending a large...