Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...already know a good deal about that vocation. In addition to this, law is not sharply divided into fields which permit of separate analysis, and there seem to be no qualifications needed by those planing to enter the profession. Almost any man who is honest and energetic who can understand what is said to him and can make himself reasonably well understood, seems to be fitted for the work...
...expressed his noblest thoughts in the noblest literature of which he was capable; for several hundred years he has been equally careful to preserve for posterity a record of his intimate life, his amusements and his ambitions in the form of letters and journals. These records help us to understand how men thought, and to understand how men thought is to go more than half-way towards understanding the age in which they lived. The literature and the history of a period are so closely interwoven that it is almost impossible to separate them--in fact, until...
...know of no other means that we have right at hand that will so quickly inspire youth as those of the military when properly applied by the instructors who understand the peculiar psychology of the American youth, providing that the youth senses its leadership in the right spirit...
...good citizen, one's education ought to initiate one into the intellectual life of the world. When the learning of the world was limited to a knowledge of ancient literatures, no one could be called an educated man unless he shared that knowledge. Without it he could not understand the language of educated men, nor enter into their thoughts and feelings. The interests of educated men have broadened; but it is still true that a student's education should fit him to share their interests, to think their thoughts and to speak their language...
...French policy in the Ruhr", Mr. Villard continued, "is very hard to understand. By her occupation she is subjecting the new German government, which is faced with many difficult problems, with a pressure which it can ill bear, and is hindering it in its struggle for existence. Her actions are undermining the friendship which has grown up with England, and are lowering her position in the regard of most Americans. The loss of the friendship of these countries would far outweigh any gain from supplies of coal or iron. I oppose the French action", the speaker concluded, "not because...