Word: explainable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happily there is a less impossible mode of improvement at hand. It is not the method of these preliminary courses and lectures, likely as dull and incomprehensible as the incomprehensibilities they try to explain. The highest service the explanatory lecture can perform is to accustom the student to the mere mechanics of his surroundings. For introduction to intellectual deeps and desires, there is a better path, namely, the instructor himself. To him who makes plain without making easy, makes colorful without making tawdry makes profound without making involved, initiates will gladly turn. Charles Kingsley's "Let not the sourfaced teach...
...went on to explain the feeling of the South concerning the presidential race "We have had one man from the South in the White House since the Civil War, and that was Woodrow Wilson...
...fairness to Mr. Young, he does not explain these averages as due to a love of literature peculiar to Princeton. In accordance with a new system of study, the student is required to obtain a knowledge of the subject independent of regular classroom work. The marked increase in reading is prompted by the ever-present professor. In all probability, the greater circulation of books is accompanied by a less thorough perusal. The undergraduate animal, be he tiger or bulldog, Indian or Puritan, is not apt to spend much time on indefinite assignments...
...purpose of this editorial to explain the value of a work whose merits are decidedly plain. It is rather to comment on the happy system by which such an appreciation is tendered to every Senior in certain departments of concentration. There are however, a great many fields which ignore such a requirement altogether. It may not be the duty of a civil engineer or an export botanist to be fully acquainted with the Bible. There may be other things that are more important in his preparation for future success. But such a requirement, if it were carried through every department...
...Major General Dennis E. Nolan, Acting Chief of Staff, was called by the prosecution. He read a letter dated March 24, 1925, signed by John Wingate Weeks, then Secretary of War, which had been taken from the White House files. It was written to explain why the Secretary had not recommended Colonel Mitchell's reappointment as Assistant Chief of the Air Service. The letter said that Colonel Mitchell had told a committee of Congress that the U. S. had but 19 planes fit for war, whereas the Government had 829 planes in use, 763 in storage, 209 on order; that...