Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reputation and fame throughout the world. When they assemble and hear, as they will this year, of remarkable expansion of the University in material and in other ways, a great deal of good is bound to result. This meeting should eclipse all that have gone before from the standpoint of attendance and influence for the advancement of the University...
First we cannot assimilate him. Assimilation is based on likeness of standpoint and knowledge of a language. Since the 35.6 per cent of the immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe is illiterate, illiteracy is the reason for poor assimilation...
...western transportation and the great hegira of the Fortyniners. On the other hand, hundreds of Harvard men possess material of local interest with which they would part only in favor of their alma mater. It is of consequence that such men should be appealed to from the Harvard standpoint, and that the material they possess should be transferred from destructible quarters and the curious hands of untrained persons, and placed in the magnificent new building, to be used only by those who can use it scientifically...
...Harvard Club will take place tomorrow evening at 8.30 o'clock. William Lloyd Garrison '97 will speak on "Our Rip Van Winkle Taxation System." In the course of his talk he will consider some of the practical results of the system from an individual as well as a social standpoint. He will also make some observations regarding the signs of its coming rejuvenation. Guests of members will be welcomed. Other entertainments planned by the club will be held as follows...
...general public is more or less conversant with the results of a college course from a mental standpoint, and in order that it might have some conception of the physical changes I have published various figures and conclusions. Professor C. S. Minot of Harvard, who has demonstrated his facts by experiments on animals has said with respect to power of growth: 'Paradoxical as it will sound whenever it is first stated to any one, the period of youth is the period of most rapid decline.' In a table compiled by Professor Donaldson on the growth of English boys, he shows...