Word: understand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...here in the country his especial hobbies are the planting of apple trees and the care of his bees. He said to me only a few days ago that he could not understand how the drones can make all the other bees work...
...understand that they are soon to parody me, or rather my other self, not the holiday self who plays usurper. And the parody does not become them, for as one fool to another I would remind them that we fools must stick together, or be stuck apart, like so many flies in the glue-paper atmosphere of Cambridge-in-exam-time...
...another tale of a White House dinner. Mrs. Coolidge was in a lively mood; she had attended a concert-the Philadelphia Orchestra, Paderewski, or Jeritza-and was quite enthusiastic ... until the President, laying down a fork and drawing a napkin across his lips, interjected: "'I can't understand why you keep running around to these musicales when there are five pianos right here in the White House...
What will a greater emphasis upon the possible development of the mind to see and understand more quickly and accurately mean in terms of the work of the classes. May it mean that our class-rooms will more and more become places in which the students rather than the teachers perform? May it mean that usually the best teacher will be the man who says the least to his students? May it mean the virtual scrapping of the lecture system...
...hardly likely that all of the men, or any large proportion of them, in a class of 500 can know each other in the same intimacy today. In fact, this is generally conceded by those who are close enough to undergraduate life to understand what the conditions really are. There are too many men, and the three years are too short, for general acquaintance; the tendency is therefore to split up into smaller units within a class, thus bringing into the situation another new element which, from the older point of view, is perhaps not quite satisfactory...