Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...training tables at the University, announcement of which was made in Tuesday's CRIMSON, Major F. W. Moore has made a further explanation of the situation. He made it clear that the Athletic Committee expressed its approval of this move mainly for the purpose of economizing from a financial standpoint. There will be but one slight exception to this rule in the case of the crew. Inasmuch as they do not finish their daily practice till very late, they will eat together in the evenings...
...From the standpoint of patriotism, which prompted the original purchase of Liberty Bonds, there can be no excuse whatever for disposing of them. The purchaser of a Liberty Bond makes a definite, specific act of handing over personal funds to the Government, thus providing actual money which can be used for military purposes. Each bond is thus transformed into a concrete, positive unit of labor which is expended in beating the enemy. The more bonds bought, the larger the volume of fresh effort contributed...
...easy task to defeat Princeton and often we have failed, but our success this year has almost exceeded all expectations. There is cause for exultation in this alone. Yet the outcome of Saturday's games is gratifying not only from a competitive point of view, but also from the standpoint of its relation to this spring's formal system of sport...
Neither of these two large classes realizes that it has taken the wrong standpoint. The true educational value of the college lies in the fact that it can properly offer the happy combination of class room and outside activities. But although the college may offer this latter, it is practically powerless to see that the opportunities it offers are accepted...
...here at the University,--and will have it their special task to solve the problems of labor in the Government's industries. Efficient hiring and "firing" will be their immediate duty, but to do this well they will have to obtain an exhaustive knowledge of labor conditions from every standpoint. They will see the necessity of organization, and will be in the best position to develop the methods of attaining it. The labor problem has become too big and too important to be handled as it has been heretofore, and the Government has wisely taken the first step towards giving...