Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...England by birth and outlook, familiar with the spirit and life of the West and its educational ideals, he has the point of view, vision, the culture, demanded by Amherst's great history." ? President David Kinley, University of Illinois...
...will, I assure him, "Show our colors, but whether he will ever be able to distinguish them from the blue sky above is another question. As a matter of fact they are so high now that they are beyond his low line of vision and have floated there since the beginning of the year 1 A. D. nay since Abel built his altar which was sometime...
...fleet of hostile airplanes, said Station 5-CL. The planes had just been sighted, pouncing and swooping in from the North. A few moments later the station told that the invading air navy was dropping poison gas bombs, flame throwers, and showers of poisoned darts. For ten minutes the vision of horror and destruction was conjured up with more and more terrifying realism. Then Station 5-CL blandly announced that there was not one word of truth in its "program," which had merely been put on "because of complaints that the usual features offered by our regular artists have been...
...take advantage of this occasion to say a word with reference to the presidential succession. . . In the three years since he joined our teaching force there has been one of our colleagues. He is a scholar of the first rank, a man of strong, true character, with humor, vision and a deep spiritual, nature. He will be a wise administrator, fitting with exceptional adaptation into the traditions of our college. I predict for his leadership a success in keeping with that of the best of his predecessors...
...School. But, as Dean Donham remarked when he took charge of the School in 1920, its success, in the terms implied in 1908, had created new and serious problems both of physical and personnel equipment. These problems have been met with remarkable skill and daring energy. The planning vision of Dean Donham and the wonderful generosity of Mr. Baker have combined to raise an edifice surpassing the dreams of those who drew the first lines less than twenty years...