Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have an experienced waiter one can get along well enough, but if one is so unfortunate as to have a new man it is anything but a pleasant place to dine. What it would be if one hundred and twenty-five more men were admitted it is difficult to understand. It would create a hubbub entirely inconsistent with anything like decency, and would be unbearable. We heartily endorse the position taken on the Advocate on this subject...
...action of the committee in refusing to permit the Glee Club to take a trip during the Christmas vacation is hard to understand. We have not mentioned the scheme before this year feeling that without doubt it would pass the committee without delay and never require the attention of the Faculty. We are disappointed at what has been done. It is hardly in keeping with the condition of affairs which, everyone maintains, exists now-a-days at Harvard. It reflects upon everyone in college, for if a group of representative men, chosen only because they can sing, cannot be trusted...
Philosophy is a practical enquiry into the presuppositions of science. It is a subject which engrosses universal attention; nearly all, even the most uncritical, philosophize at times. Its confusing variety, elaborateness and obscurity causes amazement and even arouses the mockery of people who fail to understand why so many volumes have been written, apparently for nothing. Philosophers seem to be struggling with insoluble problems. The answer is that no one can attain a satisfactory conclusion until after repeated trials. Therefore since in Philosophy whole success seems unattainable, a partial one is well worth the task...
...Turn from the wide world, which it is so easy to abuse, so hard to understand, and think of your own life which you do know. There are high desires, noble discontents and ambitions in you. You know that they are there. But is not the dissatisfaction of your whole life this, that it is not they that get your most devoted thought and eager action? It is "the meat which perisheth" for which you really labor. It is the prize of the moment that sets you all astir, with desire, with indignation, with hope, with fear. All the time...
...spite of the large number of Harvard graduates in this city who have shown deep interest in this matter, and who have exceptional opportunities for knowing most of the influential Yale men, the New York Alumni of Harvard were not represented on the Conference Committee. But as we understand it, Yale now offers to concede one of the two points in dispute by making, as Harvard insists, Special Students, eligible for places on the nine, crew, etc., provided Harvard will consent to a single football game annually, and that at New York...