Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME New York, N. Y. Gentlemen: As you may understand from what fol- lows, I have a deep regard for your paper. In your issue dated Dec. 8, I was especially interested by a letter from Subscriber DuCloe regarding the existence of little fishes 6¼ miles below the surface of the sea. He points out that this is impossible because the temperature of the water there is only about 32° and the pressure 2½ tons per sq. in. He might have added to these common-sense objections the impossibility of obtaining food. Irrefutable as these reasons...
...drive, from which six millions were pledged to the business school but not a cent to the drama. This drive blocked the effort which Mr. Baker's friends wished to make to raise money for a college theatre workshop, and thus he was given as plainly as possible to understand that though the Harvard officials were anxious to teach advertising and accounting they took no serious interest in the development of creative literature...
...There is another thing, that students don't seem to understand, and that is the returning of books by 9 o'clock in the morning. Students don't realize that often there is only one copy of the book they have taken out, and that it is very much in need in the Library. Therefore they feel offended when a notice, asking them to return the book, is sent to them. We had a man last year, who kept a book so long that we had to send a messenger to get the book in his room. Later, when fined...
...statement of last Monday, in which he announces his determination to continue a Third Party fight, he indicates he does not. So, to me, it is difficult to understand why his status should be considered by this conference as eligible for membership...
...CRIMSON should understand the organization of the University and not confuse the Corporation (or the President and Fellows), the primary governing board, with the Board of Overseers, which has in general supervisory powers only, and in this case was not consulted about or informed as to the situation. So far as I know, the members of the Board of Overseers first learned of Professor Baker's resignation from the newspapers. Langdon P. Marvin...