Word: know
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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When one is carried away by the sheer force of another's personality, he begins to believe that there must be something in what that other is teaching. The biggest men generally try to find out what one does know instead of what one does not know. Under such conditions it is a poor student indeed who does not respond to the stimulant...
...Paris Conference are due wholly to the appeal that his program has made to the imagination of the great mass of the people of Europe. Statesmen are following him not because they like him personally but because their people are following him and because they know that if they reject the Wilson program they have nothing to substitute for it that can satisfy public sentiment. It is their one bulwark against the Anarchistic flood...
...British offered him the only formal entertainment that could be extended to the head of a great nation, the papers made much of the royal treatment this "prince of democracy" was getting. To give all the real news connected with the mission is only reasonable: We want to know exactly what is happening over there. But to feature such unimportant facts as have been repeatedly featured may be not only undignified but dangerous...
...easily change to another group if there is need of it, to provide a similar freedom of interchange of professors so that they should not be too much tied to one group of undergraduates, and to adjust the Freshman studies so that the professors are interested in teaching and know how to teach, while the senior instructors are interested in professional preparation and know what is needed to prepare a man for his profession...
...only explanation of the growing misuse of the room is that people do not know or are beginning to forget that the Farnsworth Room is a memorial, as the bookplate indicates, and should be sacred from desecration. It is inconceivable that any college man should wish to rob something which has been given as a monument for the whole University to enjoy...