Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John Eli by a quaint fancy, namely they had a man name Gus Buell playing defensible full back on there nine and finely a ball was kicked to same and he catched it and run with it. The usual procedure in football as I have come to understand it is for a defensive full back to wait for a kick to start comeing and then lay down on a well-greased linoleum rug and begin playing cross-eyed parchesi with the man he graduated from high school. But this time this Buell guy catched the kick and run back with...
...expended in collecting data to be poured out at stated intervals. In England we place no such stress on our examinations. In correcting a paper the professor will try to see if you have a grasp of the subject in its relations to the world and whether you understand what the meaning of the whole thing is. I have heard a history professor tell a student that it was entirely unnecessary to include dates in his paper on the ground that he could readily tell without them whether or not the student had a grasp of the subject...
...even Mr. Lawrence's ticket takers, and farmers and young country girls, are all of them stark mad, mad in an unpleasant rasping way. All of his characters have un-natural lights in their eyes, and their brains are pounding with agonies of an existence which they do not understand. All of this is cleverly written and may be what Mr. Lawrence is after...
...point further, which is raised with some hesitation, is the question of complimentary and preferential tickets. No one will deny that the players and substitutes have earned their right to extra tickets. Outside of these comparative few, it seems hard to understand how the concrete part of four of the best sections in the Stadium (in case of the Princeton game) should be filled by the invited guests of coaches, officials, former players, and other privileged applicants...
...Christianity. The Christian faith cannot be imposed. It must be adapted to the needs of the people for whom it is meant. This fundamental fact was recognized as far back as the time of Pope Gregory the Great who instructed Augustine to adapt his religious teachings to the understanding of the Britains among whom he was going. It is to be hoped and expected that the Christian Church will do as much or more for China than it has for other countries. I believe that with the background of their own richly religious history the Chinese will ultimately come...