Word: viewpoints
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...said with entire confidence that the position of the British Government with respect to naval limitation is exactly as stated by Sir Esme. But 24 hours after he spoke people with good hindsight could see that he had made a shocking blunder from the viewpoint of the Empire's Foreign Secretary, frigid, be-monocled Sir Austen Chamberlain...
...From the viewpoint of the reader, incidentally, the proposed legislation is of minor significance. The Boston dweller who must have his "Oil" will simply no longer be obliged to travel to Cambridge to get it. The languishing Boston bookshops will again take on their line of pristine Republican prosperity. And, for the Book of the Month Club, Lewis, Deeping, Sinclair and Dreiser may now be enrolled once more on the national eligibility list...
...matters related to the English Department alone there is likewise improvement, from the student's viewpoint. The successor of English D will no longer be a requirement for those falling in the successor of English A, and I will count, as it should, for a degree. But it is unfortunate that the authorities find it still necessary to continue the first half of English A under any name as a requirement. Only men coming to college with an extremely poor foundation can get a return out of the labors of the first part of the course at all proportionate...
...Fitzgerald discovered that an object changes its shape somewhat, according to its position or movement. Albert Einstein proved that objects change with time, that time itself is not a definite thing. It is different according to the viewpoint. Your hour is not my hour. . . . The scientists, in short, got a long way from the short man rapidly walking down a broad street. They had noted details. The short man was perhaps 5 ft. 4 in. tall; he weighed 145 Ibs.; wore unpolished black leather half-shoes, black lisle socks, a grey tweed suit, a taupe-colored felt hat pulled down...
...means unrelated to conditions elsewhere under his jurisdiction. Imperative changes recommended in the curriculum of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences derive directly from altered standards in undergraduate academic circles. It is in the lack of comprehension of such interrelations, which is dependent upon his limited viewpoint, that the undergraduate fails generally to achieve an intelligent interest in his own affairs. To make him University-conscious, in the sense of making him keenly aware of a kinship with other schools, is impossible, but such illumination as the annual report is welcome for its message to those who take...