Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They have been commissioned by vice-Chanceller Priestly of Melbourne University to make a survey of student activities and organizations in all the colleges visited, with a view of developing student life in Australia...
...books like Hervey Allen's Toward The Flame, big battles are presented from the plain soldier's point of view as little more than explosions of murderous confusion. Captain Liddell Hart's A History of the World War, caustically analyzing the strategy of opposing generals, gives the impression that battles were almost as confusing to the professionals who planned and directed them. Readers who want to add to their knowledge of what happened at the Somme, the Marne, Cambrai, St. Mihiel, Mons-and why it happened as it did-can get some insight into the confusion from...
...comparatively new growth in modern society that serves no genuine military purpose, often loses battles. When military enterprises are undertaken to enhance the reputation of generals during wars, for instance, it is militarism, as it is when unnecessarily large armies are maintained during peace. The genuine military point of view Dr. Vagts finds occasionally in Napoleon (when he said an unnecessary maneuver, no matter how brilliant, was criminal), in Washington, in Clausewitz, in General Hagood, in Colonel Lawrence, who regretted a victorious battle because he knew the enemy would have surrendered in a few days without one. But the militaristic...
...view was in direct opposition to that expressed by Ernest Lundeen Senator from Minnesota, who asserted that "we are isolated completely and forever. Some of our leaders need to grow up, come home, and be Americanized," he added...
...attitude, business revived, so that the fixed investment income of Harvard rose in 1935-36 to $4,770,578.49. But the actual gain in dollars to the University has been more than offset by the sharp and phenomenal rise in prices during the past year. From the point of view of the educational institutions of this country it is unfortunate that the bond-holding classes are so weak at the polls...