Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...because, for sooth, they did not care to take the time and trouble ! As for the News' claim that the freshman championship was acknowledged to be lost by Harvard, '88, quoting a letter to that effect, no one who had read the letter in question from an untiased standpoint could have helped seeing what the writer meant. He meant that the Yale game probably decided the championship, for if beaten there we had certainly no show of winning the 3rd game; but he never, as he himself acknowledges, meant or inferred that one game makes a championship: nor could anyone...
...looks at the presentation of this play, as an effort of professional actors, there are many personal faults that can be mentioned, and some of them, from this standpoint are glaring. But, one commits a serious mistake by judging the personal acting with this spirit. The play was an earnest endeavor of amateurs, and one cannot expect the personal excellencies of professionals, Mr. Jones as Brutus lacked many of the essential attributes of that character, but as Antony, he showed a good conception of his part, and a ready and well marked adaptation of action and speech to his ideal...
...wont to make their studies secondary to their work in the field, we feel that so sweeping a statement ought to be carefully analyzed. Let us, for Harvard may fairly be said to represent the American University in its most ideal form, look at the question from a Harvard standpoint. Are our athletes conspicuous for a superabundance of bodily strength gained at the expense of a corresponding loss in mental power? Hardly, we think, and we are borne out in this assertion by the prosaic but convincing figures of the yearly rank lists, Are our students ever so carried away...
...added that while the professors of the school agree to differ in regard to many matters, and while each is left free to teach from his own standpoint, yet, so far as the department of the school is concerned, they are, and through all the changes that have taken place have been, in substantial accord. They all have the same ideal of what the school should be, and work and realize this each by his own methods. * * Taken altogether, the school was never better furnished for its work, never exerted so large an influence, and never produced better fruit than...
...Sargent of New Haven, manufacturer of hardware: The Tariff from the Standpoint of an American Manufacturer...