Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Tufts certainly deserved to win the game from every standpoint. It was a case of a well-drilled Harvard team with a few simple plays meeting a well-drilled Tufts team with a large assortment of formidable plays, including shifts, delayed passes, double passes...
...article on Professor Bertrand Russell which you copied from the Transcript yesterday on your editorial page shows a lack of appreciation of his standpoint and principles which that paper might be expected to show, but which will not be permitted to stand as the opinion of the Harvard undergraduate body. For our nation--if any--should be capable of understanding Professor Russell's internationalism: it is we who are rightfully more and more assuming the attitude of champions of human rights as opposed to those of any one nation. Let us get rid of the old idea, which...
...There is little doubt that the relation of offence to defence in football this season will receive serious consideration by those who follow the game closely. There can be no denial that in the past few years the game from the standpoint of offence has developed, while the defence has stood still, if indeed it has not deteriorated. It is a delicate matter, this balanacing of power of attack and strength of resistance. Some will hold that the ideal relation has never been attained. There have been epochs which have seen a practically impregnable defence, due to stringent regulater, this...
...last spring production was, from this standpoint, distinctly a success. Undergraduate coaching was an innovation worth making. But still more encouraging was the fact that one of the plays was written by a student in the college. In the last few years undergraduate plays have been extremely rare. The sub-Bakerite students have been able to design scenery, to fix electric lights, to sell tickets, to set stages, and to act. Now they even find themselves able to direct productions. But they evidently think that this is the limit of their powers. Playwriting they have left to the Graduate School...
...vote of that body. The issue is serious. On the one side is the welfare of the Union and its service to the University. There is no doubt of the fact that universal membership would be the salvation of the Union, both from a social and a financial standpoint. There is also no doubt that the present condition of affairs cannot and should not be allowed to drag out wearily to a catastrophe. Compulsory membership, however, faces a difficulty which even its strongest advocates cannot overlook: it practically means raising the tuition fee above the two hundred dollar mark which...