Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secondary-school certificate) or taking city examinations after the necessary experience in small schools. In private-school work the advantage of graduate training does not rest upon the fact that it enables a man to meet stated requirements but upon the fact that it enables him to understand problems and seize opportunities to which he would otherwise be blind. The private schools do not require technical study of Education, although some of them are beginning to value it; but they favor intensive scholarship in a subject and offer more opportunity to teach in one chosen field, without the burden...
...order to understand the position that a Graduate School of Engineering must occupy in the American educational orchard it is necessary to recognize the American university as a transplant from English soil (the college) upon which have been grafted the branches of certain graduate disciplines and professional schools native to Continental Europe. The tree of university education thus produced appears to have been well adapted to the American climate and soil and has flowered and borne fruit in abundance and variety. While attempts have been made in the past to include among these branches a professional school of Engineering, such...
Even as a Zionist, I can see that neither the Arab nor the Jew will receive complete control of Palestine. However, I believe even the editors of TIME can understand that a legislative council composed of 13 Arabs, eight Jews and five Britons, while mathematically speaking, gives the Jew more representation than his present population warrants, certainly does not adequately protect the interests and investment of Jews in Palestine. Before the Jews began rehabilitating Palestine, the country was one uncivilized and barbarous; reeking with poverty, malaria, cholera and similar plagues. Through the activity of various Zionist organizations such as Hadassah...
...methods were found of storing food, famines diminished and the hordes grew larger. Small, weak hordes were exterminated. The increase in size and decrease in number of the groups continued. Today the groups are nations. But the primitive feeling of simple hostility to the stranger survives. If we understand this, and believe that nations are not the largest possible social units, we are "face to face with those forces that will ultimately abolish warfare...
...indeed hard to understand why the nationality or political convictions of a particular section of the world should have any influence over the discussions of an international congregation. Citizens of democratic countries are becoming increasingly huffy and high-handed with dictatorial governments like Fascism and Naziism, but to what end? Autocracies, disagreeable as they may seem to a liberal people, must be dealt with. We who have been born and bred in democratic traditions are wont to treat European dictatorships like provisional governments merely waiting for the day of democratic revelation...