Word: views
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...view of certain misunderstandings as to the relation of the Harvard dining Association to the Corporation, the following statement...
This year the Corporation has granted a more exclusive privilege to Juniors than ever before, and has shown every possible consideration for the undergraduate point of view. For the present Junior class not to come up to expectations would indeed be a confession of weakness, which the authorities in future years could not be expected to overlook...
...single term her spent in the English university, he kept his eyes open and his mind at work. A longer experience and deeper meditation might have led him to change his mind on some things, as, for example, that it is not difficult to get the English point of view, or that "refinement, because it is the most difficult part of education to attain, should therefore come last." Some things, on the other hand, are neatly put, such as this: "Some one who is very English is apt to be a South African: Canadians are far more independent, and Americans...
...provide them with social opportunities and conveniences which they, as strangers, can less readily find under present conditions. With this club the University will derive more benefit than at present from the large number of students representing the manners and customs, special abilities, opinions, feelings, and points of view characteristic of many foreign countries. The large foreign contingent at Harvard is an "asset" as yet incompletely realized by the University for its own advantage...
...started on its interesting and useful career. It will fill a long-felt want. The average foreigner has been all too likely to become an outsider in everything but name, through no fault of his own and no fault of the other students. The foreigner, with different points of view, has not been encouraged to approach his American classmates, whose ideas and ideals he cannot altogether understand. The undergraduates on the other land have become absorbed in their own interests and overlooked the presence of those who have come so far to join the ranks of Harvard...