Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Until the people who are engaged in the active life of the modern world bring themselves to understand the language of a cooperative religion instead of that of a competitive life it will be useless to endeavor to influence them by that religion". Dr. Sperry continued by outlining the problem of the struggle between Christianity and Competition, and concluded by saying that most of the intellectual fighting of the next few years will be concerned with the endeavor to solve this problem...
...matter of importance to the freshmen only. The principle that the less college men are compelled to do and the more they do on their own account the better, is an abiding one at Harvard. It applies to the Chapel. Those freshmen who can truly understand that principle will not need any arguments to prove to them that they should go to Appleton Chapel this evening. Those who cannot understand it are little likely to be influenced by any arguments...
...after the last war not so that I am able to write letters over German literature without any compensation. I will nothing gain from our correspondence, but I may only have a like compensation for the loss of time, which costs the writing of these letters. I hope you understand me, and I believe that you will be able to fulfil my condition without great sacrafice, because your money has a considerably greater value than ours. I attend your proposes...
...nations at war? They do not understand one another. World economics and all the Fine Arts cannot bring about a true understanding of foreigners. Foreigners they remain as long as they voice what may be the same idea in a different language...
...captured alone, without an audience, and held to a direct answer of "Yes" or "No" to every question put to him. These two semi-truisms are by no means the be all and end all of Shaviainism; but they go a long way in helping most of us to understand the playwright. "Getting Married," playing this week at the Copley, is no exception to Shaw's rules. It is witty, intellectual and enjoyable; it tears down without building up; it makes mince-meat of "class" and "respectability"; and it leaves the mind in a whirl. We should like to believe...