Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When addressing a foreign government, custom and propriety demand that a foreign minister write it a note. But there are occasions when notes are ineffective. Then a foreign minister may address himself, say, to the public, talking loud enough so that the foreign government in question may understand...
Under this curse, pathetically enough, editors writhe in impotent anger. One can understand, therefore, the intense feeling with which an editor of The New York World sat down, last week, penned these words...
...that as it may, the serious-minded Harvard undergraduate will be grateful to The Dartmouth for pointing out this canker to him, and, even more, for prescribing its cure. He has only to understand the other extreme, and then to mix himself up with it. He would be amply justified in demanding a debate between the Advocate and the Varsity Club, or a joint meeting of the Poetry Society and the Student Council...
...attack extremes. Extremes are healthy. Nearly every great man in history has been an extremist. But the enlightened followers of extremes have always deliberately tried to understand, and generally have understood, representatives of the opposite extreme. It is just such understanding which should justify a man in the extreme he believes...
...least, representatives of each extreme might in this way be able more completely to understand what the other men get out of their extreme. It is just this understanding The Dartmouth advocates...