Word: viewpoints
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...topics must wait for final treatment until the detailed studies upon which they must be based have been made. At present there is almost no opportunity for the publication of these studies. The colonial and revolutionary history of New England has been written largely from a narrowly antiquarian viewpoint; the history of New England thought and letters largely from a personal viewpoint; and the economic, social and political history of New England during the last hundred years has hardly been touched...
...success of the first year of the plan for housing married students has prompted the new move. An academic year's experience showed that the plan was sound both from the college viewpoint and the financial aspect...
Mayor Thompson claimed that the offending works perverted the real facts about the early days in America and presented the matter in such a light as to contaminate the minds of Chicago's citizen with the viewpoints of our country's onetime enemies. He particularly feared "Angelicizing" of the viewpoint of inhabitants of Chicago, although he did not use quite that expression...
...Game." Frank Leslie Smith, Senator-suspect from Illinois, had another "day in court" with the Campaign Funds Investigation Committee. He read a long statement which "flouted" the Senate er "championed" Illinois, according to viewpoint. Illinois had elected him, the Senate must seat him, said he. The Senators had heard this argument before, from impartial Senator Borah, whose vote had been for seating Mr. Smith, out of respect to Illinois, then ousting Mr. Smith to punish political simony. After Mr. Smith, the Committee listened to a long-awaited explanation by Samuel Insull, potentate of gas, light and politics in Chicago...
...error in an article appearing in your Dec. 5 issue on Sport, entitled "Chicago Horse Show"? In it, you state that the S. P. C. A. accepts a decree that tail-sets are agreeable to horses. Neither the Anti-Cruelty Society nor the Illinois Humane Society accepted any such viewpoint. (The S. P. C. A. was not drawn into it, to my knowledge). Mr. Otto Lehman proclaimed in the papers that the battle was over. "The wish was father to the thought": he had such difficulty in getting the horse show togther that he struggled against any interference...