Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...students shall investigate matters and go beyond him. A teacher of geography must therefore have a knowledge of the basis on which geography rests, that is the physical development of the country. An intelligent and lively class is naturally full of questions and to answer these the teacher must understand the causes of every change and peculiarity on the country's surface. Better to illustrate this point, Professor Davis took the case of waterfalls and explained, with stereopticon views, the different kinds of waterfalls classified according to a physical basis. The first case is where a stream comes...
...brought to degradation. They refuse to go West, but remain couped up in cities and the so-called "sweating system" is a result. Protection claims to protect the American laborer and yet she allows our ports to be open to cheap and pauper labor. These foreigners do not understand our ways of government. They cannot distinguish between unrestricted freedom and liberty, thus anarchism and the numerous cliques and secret societies, with all their evils, arise. Law is the expression of public sentiment and if we put the control of elections into the hands of the immigrant our law will...
...rather pointless sketch of two boys one of whom drowns under circumstances somewhat difficult to understand finishes the number...
...Chileans are in many respects like the people of the United States, vigorous, fond of Republican government as they understand it; a commercial people who have been called the "Yankees of South America...
...they did not leave unreasonably early. A large number of cases, however, showed that the men had gone off merely to add a few more days to their vacation. In dealing with these men the authorities went on the supposition that it might be the parents who did not understand the regulations, and they sent letters to the parents stating what the regulations were, and how they had been broken. In some instances these letters included also admonitions, the student himself having previously received admonition from the Office. Matters of this sort generally resulted from a man's having been...