Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate, at least, the opportunities at Harvard for a liberal education by the vicarious methods if I may call it that are most fortunate. After the first year in the Yard the students, distributed among seven Houses, live under ideal conditions for the interchange of different points of view. Of course, no one imagines that the conversation around the dinner table turns every evening on the relative merits of philosophy or economics. Friendships are formed, however, and that is the important point...
...Council exercises its office of student judge and reporter by means of reports on questions which seem significant from the undergraduate point of view...
What is definite is the fact that in Cambridge are gathered many of the best minds of this country and that Harvard's set-up allows easy access to them. Even the youngest student of independent mind can share the benefits of its freedom of inquiry and unorthodoxy of view once he understands its atmosphere...
...International Settlement police killed two Japanese-controlled Chinese policemen and wounded six others with a submachine gun, when they attacked him from the rear and, according to his claim, without provocation. Said the Japanese Embassy, after an emergency meeting of Army and Navy officers: "We take a grave view of this affair." Foreigners wondered if Japan would consider it provocation enough once and for all to settle the Settlement...
Without revealing the source of the story the Express's, reporter presented it as a hypothetical case. The War Office took a "grave view," pointed out that the story gave the number and location of more than one gun, which constituted the publication of an official secret. This was just what the Express needed for a good story of its own. Next day the London papers picked it up. Headlined the Evening Standard: WAR OFFICE BUYS COPY OF THE HAREWOOD NEWS. Below were pictures of the publishers...