Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English being notoriously an incomprehensible race, Americans must be content with understanding that they cannot understand them. This book is as English as Huntley and Palmer's. Its jokes are English in their unobstrusive dreariness. Its pages abound with Dickensy eccentrics and Arch bald Marshallish country life, and, in addition, there is an unmistakable flavor of Kipling and Ian Hay and Conan Doyle...
...yesterday's CRIMSON, have considered Section III, concerning Subdivision into Colleges, an undergraduate attempt to rival Plato. Remembering that the "house divided" is supposed to fall, they see in this project of the Committee an excellent means of destroying Harvard. Yet upon further consideration, one can more clearly understand just what the plan implies and why it is both necessary and practical...
...made ready, last week, to present to Congress the rivers and harbors appropriation bill. Tacked to this 40-million-dollar bill as a somewhat disproportionate rider was a provision, involving an ultimate expenditure of 600 millions, authorizing the New York project. House Leader Tilson gave Mr. Dempsey to understand that the bill would not be heard in that form. Mr. Dempsey retorted that it would be heard thus or not at all. Both visited the President, who was preserving strict neutrality in the controversy. Mr. Dempsey threatened to withhold his entire appropriations bill, but finally consented to ask only...
...important part in the nation-wide expansion of athletics, such petty jealousy and autocratic behavior are utterly foreign to the amateur spirit which they profess to represent. For since a man who engages in sport purely for recreation is under obligations to no one it is difficult to understand why any organization should feel called upon to restrict his activities on the cindor path. Yet, by raising the cry of keeping amateur sport uncontaminated this is precisely what the A. A. U., the Western Conference, and similar federations have presumed to do. That actual professionalism flourishes unrebuked even under...
...more than half a century, travelling fellowships have been availabe to Harvard men. And not ony do the recipients of these awards have opportunity to further their scholarly interests, but they learn to understand the prejudices of the country in which they study. By the very fact of living amid strange surroundings, they acquire a counterpoise for their own predilections. To the graduate student such opportunities are presenting themselves in increasing numbers...