Word: visional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baptist, Greenville, S. C.) whose enrollment has more than doubled since he took the post in 1919. Poised, scholarly, a Ph.D. from the University of Berlin, Dr. McGlothlin can give his hearers rich metaphor, did so in New York: "How can we break through the fog which dulls our vision? How can we kindle the blaze of spiritual power which will enable us to overcome the material age in which we live? The answer is that no one can bring peace and happiness back to us except Jesus Christ...
...abilities by which he did this were not merely those for which Lord Haldane named him the "father of modern jurisprudence." In him, legal acumen and breadth of vision were tempered by a noble humanity. The narrow formalism of law, so often hostile to this quality, seems never to have dulled either his vision or his generosity. It is no more accident that his opinions have always been considered as masterpieces of English legal style. It is rather the natural consequence of his capacity to embrace the largest aspects of any subject which engaged his mind...
...expositions of the law in his opinion but for far-reaching suggestions in his published papers and addresses. With an assured grasp upon the authoritative legal materials of the past, he has had a clear sense of the legal problems of the present and immediate future and a vision of the path which the law is taking in order to cope with those problems. He leaves an enduring mark upon American law and one no less enduring upon legal thinking throughout the English speaking world...
...little more study of the problems of the world under world-known figures such as John R. Mott, Dr. T. Z. Koo, Kirby Page, and others, would make us citizens of more vision, perhaps, but of less ignorance and lack of interest. Daniel B. Dorman...
This Christmas vacation at Buffalo there was such a congress of students. There was much talk of "Lack of vision," and the hope was expressed that the Kellogg pact might become a reality. It is this sort of idealism which stunts the political influence of the undergraduate when he becomes a citizen and blinds him to the difficulties of government which even vision cannot pierce. The Conference also voted that Mr. Hoover be petitioned to appoint a student to the Geneva disarmament conference, an appointment with which it is difficult to cavil. The delegate will probably do little good...