Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tone of General Pershing's most recent instructions to the army bears an encouraging resemblance to the new spirit in college education; their characteristic is a more liberal viewpoint. Just as the colleges are departing from the tradition of rigidity, with prescribed courses and emphasis on studies, and turning to the encouragement of a cultivated youth interested in sports, so General Pershing's orders urge less the monotonous routine of the barrack and drill-field, and more the development of a soldier intelligent, skilled, and athletic...
...than half way and to stretch out a hand for any olive branch that may be extended. I am not acquainted with the type of religious dogmatist to whom, according to The World, "there is no middle ground." So far as I am concerned personally--and I think my viewpoint is fairly representative of other religious leaders--I am not now, and never have been, unfriendly to science, as far as my specializing in the field of religion has made possible, and I rejoice in all of the notable achievements of true science...
...write. The printing press came and added permanence to the thought of the moment. The typewriter followed--and the phonograph--and the camera. Now to photography, motion has been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter at Valley Forge are gone for all time; but every great event taking place now or hereafter will be preserved for succeeding generations exactly as it happened...
...further pointed out that America might well take a lesson from the new republics that are springing up in Europe. They have had a chance to study the American theory of democratic government from a detached viewpoint, and when forming their own constitutions it should be interesting for us to see what they incorporate from our system and what they discard...
...Italy respectively, comes a discussion in the Paris Temps as to whether Columbus really benefited humanity by discovering America, after all. The French reflection omits any arguments from the country most directly affected in the matter, as prejudiced, and proceeds to judge the question from an impartial European viewpoint...