Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideas appear false, and the office seems tied up with useless red tape. Unfortunately, however, the College office has to have a certain number of regulations to settle the various questions which constantly come up for settlement; the main difficulty is that comparatively few undergraduates even attempt to understand them...
...Playgoer understand that Mr. Rolla Wayne, 2G of the 17 Workshop, has been awarded a constract to design scene-models for next year's production of the Ziegfeld Follies. Mr. Wayne has done many notable sets for Workshop productions, and has won distinction outside the University by the invention of his cycloramic cone, which he expects to employ in his designs for the "Follies." He is at Present working on the scenery for the forthcoming Spring Production of the Workshop...
...Moderns is in the making, with the President of the Wesleyan Conference at London as the champion of prohibition, and Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, English novelist, taking the side of the temperate wine-bibbers. The eminent churchman decries the charge that complete abstinence will cut him off "from understanding all that is good to understand in Swift or Shakespeare". Sir Arthur, in reply, presents the total abstainer as imperfectly equipped either to create or appreciate high literature, because "high literature demands total manhood, of which teetotal manhood is obviously a modification...
President Atwood's action would appear to vindicate Mr. Nearing's allegation. There are few more ticklish subjects than freedom of speech and it is unfortunate that a university president should be so entangled in it. As a private individual, one can understand President Atwood's action and sympathize with him, for no one cares to have his profession abused. But as the head of a university, one can not commend it. Such circumstances put an officer in an extremely awkward position; he hears that a man whose views he distrusts has been asked to lecture, and he objects...
...wealth, or at least sufficient means to seek purely selfish pleasure, should find satisfaction in coming "to do chores" for the sake of others, is really the best thing that college men have done for Labrador. It does more for Labrador than Labrador may admit or even understand. It is the best thing any man can do for the world anywhere--it is the one modern interpretation of what Christ Himself...