Word: viewpoint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spain is the most complete coverage of the youth peace movement available. Many of the stories, however, are obviously opinionated and contain unfounded implications; the Student Advocate, like its counterpart The Daily Worker, must be taken by the standard prescription for slanted journals--mix well with the extreme opposite viewpoint and quite a few grains of salt...
Retorted Mr. Hart: "I reject the socialistic viewpoint contained in the Rugg books. . . . All that I can see in this haze is that some of you want us to merge ourselves into an internationalistic, socialistic type of democracy...
...take six courses outside of any one section. This will prevent the student from taking too may courses in any one field in order to make sure of passing his general examinations in his Senior year. It will broaden the intellectual horizon of the honor student with a narrow viewpoint by forcing him to take more-courses in closely related subjects. Certain courses will not be included in the various sections as they are too elementary; these include elementary language and composition courses and such others as are primarily interested in acquiring a technique...
...Nieman Fellow may take a course for credit towards a degree of any sort. They therefore have no examinations to contend with, and from an undergraduate viewpoint, work in an unorthodox manner. A few lectures, considerable reading, dinners, and many conversations supply the bulk of their time. Lectures are not as popular as might be supposed; the men have not the time to follow a subject comprehensively through a series of lectures. They prefer instead to go off on their own and dig up the ideas in which they are particularly interested...
...United States are those who favor his policy of complete isolation, and that those who urge aid to Britain, short of war or all out, are therefore "warmongers and fanatic speech makers." He does not take the trouble to show why his attitude is the only "humane and logical viewpoint"; he either cannot or will not explain his reasons. Secondly, he assumes that the fact that so many leading men and newspapers have changed their minds about the meaning of this war is indicative of the baleful results of a "warmongering diet". Mr. Young seems to believe that...