Word: visioning
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There will be a meeting of the Poetry Society in the Monthly Sanctum tonight at 7.30 o'clock. Mr. Lincoln Colcord, author of "The Vision of War" and many other well-known books, will read from his own works and talk briefly about the poetry of the great war. Among the others present will be Mr. Sylvester Baxter, who will also speak on the poetry of the war, and Mr. Edward J. O'Brien, editor the Boston Transcript. A short business meeting will be held just before the regular one, and all members are urged to be present...
...commercial press, then we deserve to be turned out by a highly efficient machine as "highly specialized experts" able to destroy the works of civilization, but utterly incapable to achieve either physical, mental or spiritual construction on new and really democratic lines . . . "Where there is no vision, the people perish." LEON SHERMAN PRATT 1Dv. W. HARRIS CROOK...
...test they have passed is only preliminary. The work of scholarship in a university is of a different, more exacting, and at the same time more interesting sort than that of a preparatory school. And ability to cram for entrance examinations and pass them is no proof of the vision and depth which is needed for scholarship of the higher sort. These men have given some indication that they possess the power of application. That application plus penetration and an unquenchable intellectual curiosity and honesty will be needed to bring scholarly honors in College. It is dangerous to rest...
...this year look back with a faint smile, a smile even of regret, upon that sad period when large sums of money were extracted from scanty pockebooks, when active committees vied with one another in pursuing the poverty-stricken students, when the whole college glowed with enthusiasm over the vision of a new gymnasium...
...stream of thought. For a lawyer to look through the microscope of a man of science increases his means of culture, for it broadens his ideas by revealing to his sight things before unknown. But the scientific man who can see only through his microscope has a very restricted vision of the world; and the same thing is true of every pursuit when restricted to its own limited field. When Charles Darwin said that in his later life he lost interest in almost everything except the pursuit of his own scientific studies, he stated that he was losing his sense...