Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Next Sunday morning the University religious exercises will once more be held in Appleton Chapel. The removal to the Faculty Room of University Hall was a wise action from the standpoint of saving coal, but it did not prove successful as far as attendance is concerned. This apathy of undergraduates may have resulted from force of habit-our young men could never find their way to University Hall-or from a conviction that the Faculty Room did not have the fitting appointments. An average of forty or fifty a day is indicative, if discouraging...
...seem anachronistic. Yet in spite of its lack of the artistic, in spite of its being the home of the Bursar, Dane Hall had a certain charm. It could always glance over at Matthews or peer round the corner at Weld and put those two to shame from the standpoint of personal attraction. Also it was old, at least old for the United States, and it had become venerable. In its age, with wrinkles stealing on, it had settled down comfortably and seemed to announce to landscape gardeners and architects that it intended staying there for some time...
...Yeomans will address the meeting from an academic to point of view. Their object will be to point out the relation between success in college today and ability to win out in the crises of tomorrow. Mr. Clark, on the other hand, will approach the subject from an industrial standpoint, and will state the business and manufacturing sides of the question. In his work with the Plymouth Cordage Company and several important mining properties in Mexico, he has had wide experience with very successful labor propositions, and is, therefore, highly qualified to represent the industrial world...
...which doesn't mean morals) or a new spirit of efficiency in College. For exactly the same reason that an army camp rises early, the College should arouse itself at least an hour earlier and find itself incalculably better in spirit and efficiency. From a broad and all-seeing standpoint, he is a slacker who votes "no" on daylight-saving, and this we must all conclude and agree on. A. BURROUGHS...
...could ascertain its effect on the German proletariat we should doubtless find that it has tremendously increased the difficulty of keeping the German autocracy in the saddle. There is reason to think that the German Emperor and his adviser are today viewing the question of peace more from the standpoint of maintaining intact the existing bureaucratic government than from any other angle. It is not that they are in terror of being overwhelmed in the field, but the first care of a autocrat is always for his own skin, and there is no telling what sort of backfire another year...