Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand intelligently the Chinese problem of today," began Mr. Kwong, cope must realize that China is a very much older country than any in Western civilization. America was discovered in 1492, less than five hundred years ago; Chinese history, on the other hand, dates back to 2400 B. C. Confucius, the great philosopher and religious leader, wrote a history of China in the year 60 B. C. and it was this same civilization, with no great changes, which existed in China in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, and which, in fact, to a large extent remains unchanged...
...cause of this apathetic condition is difficult, to understand and is, without a doubt, extremely complex. It is probably found in other colleges. Perhaps the supposedly fast lives that we lead in this jazz and cynical generation are conductive to early maturity. Whatever the cause it seems that the indifference of the average student is losing for him some of the zest and tingle of life. He is an old man at twenty. --The Dartmouth...
...years to establish unity among courses. WE have tried orientation courses for Freshman. We have been calling this orientation course an attempt to tell a Freshman what he is going to study before he studies it, as he goes into the field of social science, so that he will understand it, when he takes it, and I think they have done quite a little in the way of unification. More might be done by a senior course which would attempt to unify different courses after they had been taken. This was done formerly by the old senior course in philosophy...
...definitions in this field is a favorite indoor sport with me and I had the fun of making up another one today. One means by a liberal education the process of so informing and training, and inciting the mind that it will go forward steadily on the road to understanding of the life to which it belongs; so informing, and training, and inciting a mind that you can count on it that that mind will travel, will go a certain way, will keep on going that way as long as it lives. If then we ask, is the average young...
...steamship companies to ascertain that all alien passengers coming to the United States are in possession of proper travel documents and the failure of an alien passenger to present upon arrival the appropriate visa, or re-entry permit, places the steamship company under a penalty of $1000. You can understand that if the Government is lax in requiring the steamship companies to comply with the provisions of the laws relat ing to the documentation of passengers that it would seriously interfere with the administration of the immigration laws. Miss Komarmicka apparently could have secured without difficulty the appropriate documents...