Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred persons were present at the annual reception given to the students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in the Living Room of the Union last night. The chief address was delivered by Professor C. H. Moore '89, who emphasized that a man should understand the relation between his specialty and other specialties. President Lowell also spoke briefly. Refreshments were served later in the evening...
...conclusion of the Disarmament Committee at Geneva, announced by Lord Robert Cecil, "that it was impossible to suppress--entirely the use of chemicals and scientific weapons" and that "the only safeguard was to make the peoples of the world understand the horrors that might be expected from such methods," notwithstanding the Root resolution at the Washington Conference forbidding the five powers the use of "asphyxiating, poisonous or analogous liquids or materials or devices...
...past three weeks the Race has been "written up", "analyzed" and "doped" from every conceivable angle daily by special correspondents. "Crimson Splashes" or "Blue Ripples" jotted down in the newspapers, have given us to understand that "the boys are on edge; little things irritate them, but everybody understands that they are merely in the pink of condition" and so on for half a column. "Inside" articles have shown conclusively that the "psychological factor" is fighting for the University, or that Yale's new-born spirit and dash are unconquerable. But when all the special articles are waded through, only...
...stay in it'. 'Act like a Negro should act,' said one newspaper, 'work like a Negro should work. Talk like a Negro should talk. Study like a Negro should study. Dismiss all ideas of independence or of being lifted up to the plane of the white man. Understand the Necessity of keeping a Negro's place.' In connection with such admonitions there came the great collective attacks on Negro life and property in Washington, Omaha, Elaine, and Tulsa. There came the increasing boldness of lynchers who advertised their purposes in advance and had their photographs taken as they stood around...
...Everything he said was considered droll, subtle, or Oriental. In consequence, he said a great deal, taking a hand in politics, and communicating directly with members of Congress. When the State Department hinted that his actions were, to put it mildly, irregular, he blandly expressed his unfortunate inability to understand Western affairs and was invariably excused...