Word: visioning
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...should not allow our partiality for the cause of the Entente so to obscure our vision as to induce us to accept as valid wholly sophistical distinctions based on mere surface factors. Critics of Germany's submarine warfare constantly stress the fact that, whereas Great Britain's Orders in Council result merely in financial loss to the United States, Germany's warfare, on the other hand, is aimed at the lives of American citizens. Let us examine, for a moment, this contention. Germany declares, to be sure, that the lives of Americans entering the recently established war zone are thereby...
...modification of the physical requirements necessary for enlistment in the R. O. T. C. has been authorized by the War Department. Defects of vision resulting from errors of refraction which are not excessive and which may be entirely corrected by glasses, do not disqualify unless they are due to or accompanied by organic diseases. Such students should report to Dr. Lee for re-examination. On account of this new ruling enrolments may be made until noon on Tuesday. The present number enrolled is 986. Company and section work starts today, lectures next week...
...from democratic systems, yet the calling into service of real experts should so diminish it as to make this fault negligible. The Naval Advisory Board is accomplishing what a body of mere seamen cannot do, for such men as Edison in dealing with perplexing questions have a breadth of vision which no admiral could ever possess...
...docks, and the "spire-shattered" sky. But frequently he seems to have been too busy being an imagist to be a poet as well. I do not mean to disparage imagism save when it becomes a conscious pose. Then it goes in search of the strange angle of vision, the unheard-of adjective, the interpretation of sounds in the terms of sight, of color in the terms of feeling and so forth. The author may adorn his poetry with these things, but if he writes his verse for the sake of these things and nothing else, he becomes an aesthetic...
...friends this morning on his sixtieth birthday, he can feel certain, as most men cannot, that all the compliments paid him are deserved. As head of the University he has carried on the work begun by President Eliot, not merely as a capable administrator, but as a man of vision and foresight. Under his leadership Harvard has maintained her position among the first universities of the world, and has blazed the path to higher fields of scholarship. The war has dimmed the light of science and letters in Europe, but President Lowell has helped to keep the flame burning brightly...