Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they appear to be. Fact is the raw material on which imagination works. Knowledge is only the beginning of wisdom; imagination is power. The chief aim of Harvard College is not so much to gain knowledge of this or that subject as it is to gain the power to understand. Growth in understanding means the strengthening of the imagination...
...student desires to learn how to think, to understand; that is, if he wants an education in the best sense of the word, he may concentrate in geology. Yet he should note also the advisability, of choosing other, fundamental studies. Before entering far into geology he should have had a good introduction to physics, chemistry, and biology; preferably also astronomy. Choice of courses in these allied, fundamental sciences is facilitated by the provision that two of the six courses approved for concentration in geology may be taken in allied departments. Within the Division of Geology the four required courses...
...will do this for the very reason that was set forth against it in the Transcript last night. An undergraduate coach would of course lack the authority of the professional. He would be less of a tactician, more of a captain with the captain's functions as the English understand them. The tendency to ward greater informality is obvious and is a good...
...Paul Claudel a close friend has said: "His thoughts as he expresses them are extremely difficult to understand. ... He fashions words out of Latin and Greek roots, picks them out of all sorts of strange places, until you seem to be wafted on a bright, flying carpet woven all of butterflies...
Even liberal Protestants, to whom veneration of Mary, the mother of Jesus, is nothing short of idolatry, were shocked; Roman Catholics, firm in their faith in Mary, Queen in heaven of the hierarchy of saints, might have answered as before: "Outsiders can never understand our faith, our veneration of the Blessed Virgin...