Word: viewpoints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Group 1, is, from the conservative viewpoint, concerned with prudence. If it is desired to prove the point that our Government has become unfortunately somewhat class-biased of late, nothing could do it better than the continued imprisonment of a kindly old man like Debs, while men of the stripe of Franz Von Rintelen, German spy and bomb-plotter, are released. Nothing is better calculated to arouse the desire to shake the control of the owners of the means of production over our public life than such a spectacular example of the results of this control...
...apply in any sense to men who have transferred not only their intellects but also their loyalty to Yale. There are a number of such men in college at present who are doing much for the University. Such men we want, for they bring to the campus an outside viewpoint, and will leave in the University history periods of which we may be proud as they. The argument, however, stands. Since the universities derive no benefit from such educational peregrinations and the students themselves lose all the true significance of college life, the practice should be relegated to the scrap...
...Harvard Union Prize Essay are reminded that manuscripts are due in the Library of the Union before February 15. Prizes of $100 and $50 each are to be given by the Library Committee of the Union for the two essays which the judges consider best from a viewpoint of literary style. Essays should be of the type published in the Atlantic Monthly, but not intended primarily to show extensive research and therefore not to exceed $500 words in length. The judges will be announced as soon as appointed...
...ranks. Usually he began work at an early age, and his general education was limited. His specialized education was obtained in the hard school of practical experience. He has been inclined to regard years of practical experience as the only effective training for positions of responsibility. Holding that viewpoint, he has minimized the value of a broad education, and has looked upon the college graduate as a theorist. Facing this critical attitude the college man has been handicapped. His progress has been hard won. As he has compared notes with classmates who have gone into other lines of business...
Happily, however, the typical railroad officer of the old school is giving way to one of the newer generation, or he is changing his viewpoint. Of late there is evidence of a growing appreciation of the need of specially trained men for the subordinate official positions and as understudies for the higher places in railroad administration circles. College trained men, and especially those who have taken special courses in graduate schools of business administration, are being sought by the railroads. The Graduate School of Business Administration is having more requisitions for such men than it can fill. There never...