Word: understand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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things, like those machines of perpetual motion, admirable in every way but one-that they will not go. I believe that I understand and value form as much as I should, but I also believe that some of those who have insisted most strongly on its supreme worth as the shaping soul of a work of art have imprisoned the word "soul" in a single one of its many meanings and the sould itself in a single one of its many functions. For the sould is not only that which gives form, but that which gives life, the mysterious...
...Harvard. These men live in the centre of one of the slum districts and make themselves acquainted with the poor in their neighborhood. They do this in no superficial or patronizing way, but by visiting the houses of the people, making common interests with them, and thus come to understand their needs and their merits. The clothing put into their hands is practically sure of finding its way into the hands of those who will make good...
...absolutely essential that everybody understand fairly both sides of the question before voting upon it. The object of this communication is to present the other side of the question...
...hope that the men on the nine will understand the spirit in which this is written. Our disposition to support the nine is unchanged; it is simply impossible to have regard for the truth and to write otherwise about the Pennsylvania game. The nine must do better, else it will bring the baseball reputation of Harvard into derision...
...newly appointed watchmen do not yet fully understand the difference between things which are allowable and those which are objectionable; but will, I trust, soon learn to distinguish between a Glee Club concert and a "boisterous demonstration...