Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...necessary funds, the donor of the money for the two new sections will gladly forward the cost of transportation. This money will be in addition to the $250,000 already promised, and will be given by a private individual and not by the Ambulance Corps. All men must know how to drive automobiles well before they can be accepted as volunteers. An extensive knowledge of the motor is not required, because that will be taken care of by the mechanicians in the corps, but a man must be able to drive in such a way as not to endanger...
...these columns recently we urged that men know other men. That does not mean he should blindly close his eyes to any judgement of men. Such blindness would be the very antithesis of knowledge. Democracy is not equivalent to genial joviality. It is something deeper and more enduring. Those who accuse Harvard of lack of democracy fail to understand the spirit or the meaning of the word...
...little frame houses in out-of-the-way streets, and those who inhabit the gold coast; those who make the clubs, and those who don't? One could hardly object if the aristocracy of the College were one of intellect, but I am sure that Mr. Lloyd knows that it is not. At Yale or Dartmouth one is blind or dumb if he does not know personally the large majority of his class; at Harvard he is fortunate if he can say "hello" to even a small minority...
...This means, first of all, that he must have some human sense, some insight into his fellow-men and some grasp on all those processes whereby our complex society is carried on. He must know history, politics, economics. He must be sensitive to civic and economic wrong. He must feel the drive of our common life forward toward better institutions and relations...
...other colleges are making such elaborate preparations for an emergency which is sure to arise if war should come. They realize that for them war may mean a general cessation of academic instruction, the turning of dormitories into barracks and of athletic fields into drill grounds. They know that the best service the colleges could render would be to transform themselves at once into so many training schools for officers. At Cambridge and elsewhere the authorities have foreseen this eventuality and are ready for it if it should come. --Boston Herald...