Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Committee gives these lectures every year, in order to make sure that all Freshmen understand the requirements for selection of courses and of subjects for concentration. Pamphlets have been sent out explaining these requirements in full, and this lecture, and others that man be given for those Freshmen who cannot attend tomorrow, are for the purpose of explaining any points that are ambiguous and not made clear by the pamphlets...
During the period in which it has been my privilege to see a good deal of Harvard and to talk with Harvard men of all sorts and points of view, I have heard much talk of various kinds about "English A". I have been curious to understand the great diversity of opinion among men of equally temperate mind and responsibility of attitude some of whom expressed resentment at being required to take an absurdly elementary course in English Composition which they thought they had left behind in prep-school; while others declared it the most fruitful experience in all their...
Little Flower--but if I could understand...
...Wait Whitman was a transcendentalist, a mystic, and a romanticist," said Professor Bliss Perry, in the seventh lecture of the series for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, "A mystic," Professor Perry went on to say, "in that he thought the best way to understand the world was to observe it, not argue about it. He was a transcendentalist through his contact with Emerson, who was his inspiration. He came at the end of one phase of the so-called romantic period. Whitman was also the climax of the period of offensive American assertiveness...
...addition to this, as a teacher of Christian doctrines, he has had a great deal to do with the natives themselves, and knows their habits and customs, as well as their point of view. It is the Hindu point of view which the world at large must understand in order to comprehend the Ghandi revolt against English rule, which has completely transformed India, and changed it from a nation of submissive onlookers to one of active revolutionists...