Word: vision
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...long as the majority of "students" have their vision so firmly set on high marks that they fail to see anything else on the landscape, any "broader" man who does receive high grades will have to keep it secret (as he does now) for fear of being classed as a "grind," and there will continue to be no place for the "student" in the social makeup of the college...
...Keyser's "Ride Them Hosses" is a bit of sufficiently vivid cavalry, experience. A. K. Train has discovered the possibility of producing a Punch-like essay by exploiting philosophy and animatism. Mr. Train might do a public service by popularizing 'Butler's vision of the machines that came alive, provided he would at the same time consent to suppress all but the most delicate of his puns. In S. B. Colby's essay on "Keeping an Open Mind," I notice a curious and probably involuntary defect of style, a battering succession of iambic verses...
...West Point sees this and acts in accord with its vision, it will be taking the greatest step possible to insure its own future and the country's safety.--Chicago Tribune...
...need of some kind of training. If the dead in the cemeteries in France could rise and speak to you, at least one-third of them would say, "We are your dead. We are not the dead of the enemy. We died of American neglect, of your lack of vision, of your lack of preparation. We went to death willingly, but we were almost unavailingly sacrified. You drafted us in July and the enemy, killed us in September. You did this after four years of warfare and you are going to do it again." God has given us intelligence...
...resignation of President Hadley, Yale University loses a man who has done much toward making Yale the institution that it is today. Born and educated among traditions of classical culture, President Hadley has maintained those ideals while liberalizing education with a broad vision and clear insight into modern problems. An economic theorist by profession his keen judgment has been repeatedly sought and utilized by practical business...