Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school they enter the Freshman class of a university comparatively much larger most of them feel lost and confused until they have, as it were, become aclimated. Harvard clubs are established in many schools largely with the view of remedying this difficulty by obtaining speakers from the College to explain to the men who are about to enter the University, just what college life means; what are its difficulties and how best to meet them...
...There are four kinds of Gymnasiums in Germany. The first is the Humanistic Gymnasium, which deals with the entire phase of classical culture and compares the antique and present German religion, literature, history, art, philosophy, and politics. Then there is the Europeanistic Gymnasium which attempts to explain the meaning of the European customs, and compares the languages of Germany, France, and England, and, in short, all the mental and psychic qualities connected with the learning of these nations...
...fact that the faculty had lately refused to accept certain customary and time-honored, but very elastic, excuses for absence from college exercises. The "Book of Harvard" and "Arguments for the Defence" gives the students' side of the question while the faculty prepared a long list of "Representations" to explain their side of the matter to the Overseers...
...lecture on the History of Italian Culture Dr. de Bosis will first tell of the social conditions of the middle ages. From this phase of his subject he will go to the religious and artistic revival of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Dr. de Bosis will next explain the Italian "Communi" as the origin of modern democracy...
...invented his category of "books which are not books", it probably did not enter his mind that a peculiar specimen with whole chapters in turn smudged and crisp, would later apply for admission. Very likely, if he could see one of them, he would be at a loss to explain the evident enthusiasm felt for the chapters so devastatingly conned. But to all who frequent Widener these volumes are common place. They are witness to a species of intellectual privation...