Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Dean insists that more "common sense, teamwork, and leadership" should be taught, students will nod to the familiar platitudes. But when Dean Donham demands vocational training in the colleges, his failure to comprehend the true function of a liberal arts college in a modern democracy is revealed...
...their protection. Judging by the speed with which some of those airfields fell, the Army did not jump to its task with quite enough eagerness. The Repulse and the Prince of Wales are monuments, on the floor of the sea, to the Far Eastern Fleet's inability to comprehend the meaning of the word cooperation...
...solution to our errors we readily concede is peace and reason. We cannot set up new principles until we comprehend the facts of the new order. But when the crisis comes in the form of force, we desert reason and strike at froth; we ignore basic ends to oppose immoral means; we forestall any real solution to the end of a bitterly destructive war. I cannot see this policy as the assertion of what we hold most dear: faith in the intelligence of ourselves and our common man to work out a decent destiny through reason. Hence I would favor...
...terminal phrases. I am sure that you will require only a reminder that any educational process has remote as well as immediate objectives. Immediate objectives are always visible and are relatively easily attained. Remote ends are, possibly, of even greater importance, although difficult for any of us fully to comprehend. John W. Cooke '16, Member of committee on instruction, chairman of curriculum committee...
They contained only 51 names, yet they made a good measure of the recent growth of the U.S.'s land fighting force, and one that was simpler to comprehend than numbers of men in the field or of weapons coming off production lines...