Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Particularly at this time such apparently unreasonable preference rankles in the Freshman mind, bringing forth a wall of protest from those who do not understand both sides of the case. There are in the University a certain number of teachers whose names are famous all over the country. Their courses are invariably widely advertised and over-supplied with students. It is only natural that they should be. It is undesirable, however, to build bigger class rooms and larger auditoriums. Courses must be limited and, when they are, it is the Senior, not the Freshman, who must be given precedence...
...Science has come the chief revelation of the will and purpose of God that has been given to our time. It is more important that the preacher understand the results of Science than that he associate with social revolution. The struggle of the future may be between Science and sentimentalism, and it is by no means certain that the right side will...
...these extremes has freedom of thought carried the tribe of Why-nots. Understand me, my dear Usbek! Never for a moment would I infringe the privilege of youth to soar with head among the clouds. But free thinking, properly understood, demands that even youth keep its feet on the earth...
...Today, however," he continued, I understand that things are greatly changed. Advertisements are solicited in the regular business fashion and the routine of the office is eliminated by secretaries and bookkeepers. The duties of a candidate are practically nothing compared with what used to be given...
...only a year ago, after the death of a little daughter, that people began to understand the mystic whose "life is hid with Christ in God." Sorrow drove him to write out the heart of his religion in a book of devotion: "Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts. Hope thou...