Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told her to do something. Stirred by the strange blind loyalty of ignorance, she did it. When the day came for her to die on a blazing woodpile she did not understand. God had not explained to her the historical values of martyrdom...
...Edsall says that "the great moral to be drawn from this controversy is: keep distinct things apart. Do not confuse Science and Religion." Now this is just what isn't the moral of this controversy. In the beginning, science and religion were exactly the same thing--an attempt to understand that eternal, transcendent, inexplicable mystery, existence. As this attempt was carried on, it very naturally split up into two methods: some men considered the majesty of the unseen, and made appropriate conjectures as to what it might be; and some men tried to arrive at the same discovery...
...laughs are not "family jokes" for Harvard men alone. The Blue Shirt Club, the Crimson, the undergraduate madness in shifting courses, the rival college, and many other particular elements of life in Cambridge are made fun of so that anyone could understand the reasons. Yet like Goldsmith's "History of England", this Lampoon does "no harm to nobody." It simply keeps the College healthily astir and confronts it with a modest image of itself at the present moment...
...found in the Turks a people of integrity and tolerance, but because they refused to turn Christian, we have visited the butcher-legend upon them while exalting Greeks and Armenians upon an equally artificial martyr-legend. Among Imperialists, one can understand the necessity of an inflexible attitude of superiority, but among Christians it corresponds neither to reality nor to the teachings of the First Christian...
Retorted Hackett in a letter to the same publication: "Unfortunately Tilden considers himself not only the greatest singles player, but also the greatest doubles player. . . . He absolutely fails to understand the great fundamental of the doubles game which is position play. . . . The Davis Cup Committee is responsible for results. . . . Tilden was believed capable of playing the doubles match, in spite of an atrocious performance in the 1922 Davis Cup Doubles. The fact that he chose to park his intelligence outside the stadium was naturally unexpected by any of the committee...