Word: standpoint
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...From an English standpoint home rule is dangerous and impracticable; Saturday Review for 1886 passim; 19th Century XII, 1024. a. A federation can only be successful when entered into with mutual good feeling; Introduction to England's case against Home Rule. b. A separate parliament would involve endless disputes on National affairs. c. It would set a bad example...
...October number of the Monthly presents as its piece de resistance an article by Rev. William Lawrence on "A Point in Financial Education." The writer argues very plausibly from a standpoint rarely taken in discussions on college expenses. He asserts that, acting on the principle of freedom which is rapidly gaining ground in the academic side of the university, a father who can afford to grant his son a large income should do so. The latter may thus learn, when young, how to take care of his money and satisfy tastes which may be a help and pleasure in time...
From college work preparatory for a future use the student steps out into the world to see-the answer to the question, What shall I do with my life? and this in its turn suggests the question, What is my life? From the physician's standpoint it is a possession under rental of an elaborate and beautifully constructed machine, a possession which implies as its equivalent due use, and not abuse, and of use that which is of most benefit to others...
From an economical standpoint, the services of the trained medical man are in ever increasing demand since all construction of what ever kind has as its basis of plan the needs of the human machine; in the health department of our cities, in the control of our manufactures, in the construction of our buildings, in the conduct of our education, the physician becomes more and more an impartial and trusted arbiter. The importance of the medical profession therefore in all its relations to our daily life is one which is constantly growing, and with such growth there is a correspondingly...
Under "Topics of the Day" "the polished courtliness" of Harvard men is dealt with, and deplored. Another article is on our new dormitory; it is perhaps too extravagant, and has a few unimportant faults. Still, from an architectural standpoint, "Walter Hastings" is almost beyond criticism, "The Skepticism of Miss Eleaner Dean" is perhaps the best thing in this number of the Advocate. It is very amusing, and out of the usual line. The style is correct and flowing and the movement is easy...