Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alumni have shown no lack of interest in the growth of athletic and even scholastic prestige of their own colleges. What has become imperative is a less selfish viewpoint. Surveys like that made by Upton Sinclair disclose an astounding hodgepodge of educational standards and methods, and this is inevitable as long as every college urged on by its alumni, seeks to cover the whole range of learning from liberal arts to applied science, and as long as secondary schools seek to prepare both for vocations and for college. A clearer definition of functions a national educational policy and system...
...Bolshevik critics attacked both authors from a purely Marxian viewpoint, but were harsher to Lunacharsky than to Shakespeare. They thought Shakespeare's play was capable of "'proletarian" interpretation, though as produced in Moscow, gave a "disgusting, vulgar, ignorant, bloodthirsty" effect...
Explosions, flashes and blinding lights kept the audience startled and gasping when Professor A. B. Lamb G'03, director of the chemical laboratory, presented the chemist's viewpoint of heat at the fourth symposuim held in the Union Living Room last night. Performing experiments that ranged from simple illustrations of the effect of oxygen and nitrogen on flame to breath-taking feats that approached necromancy, Professor Lamp kept the audience in a continual flurry of excitement...
...other hand" he continued, "closer inspection may prove that there is more to his viewpoint than we had at first imagined. I don't see any risk in either case, since these speakers merely present ideas. It seems to me there is much more reason to allow them to speak to a group of trained men than to permit them to talk on street-corners...
...question of non-participation in war will be debated from a thoroughly modern viewpoint. Members of both the Liberal Club and the Military Science Department are expected to attend the meeting, and should take an active part in the discussion. It is even understood that a resolution will be proposed from one side of the house advocating the abolition of the Military Science Department at Harvard...