Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman Debating Club has for its purpose not only the holding of debates and discussions, but also the bringing together of Freshmen that they may better know and understand each other. In accordance with this latter purpose, the club has decided to hold several get-together meetings for all Freshmen...
...filing their claims, many of whom are unable to read a danger signal or safety sign; $250,000 is reckoned as the daily cost of these accidents. In the draft, nearly one-third of the picked manhood of the country was ineligible for service due to incapacity to understand the most elementary instruction...
...answer, "but if its system is as complicated as Oxford, I am certainly glad I don't. Oxford and Cambridge are so entirely different, any way, from most sorts of universities. They are institutions for making a Jolly aristocracy instead of a priggish one. Harvard, I understand, aims to make the students work, while the atmosphere of Oxford is merely to have a nice time and learning is very little forced on the men who go there. This Oxford idea, you know is a great deal better than having a lot of priggish science thrust on one. But after...
...female must necessarily be a modest one the tied up to the neck in a sack, especially if she jumps in it her modesty may be dubious, but she is decent. But there can be no doubt of the immodesty of one who goes half naked. . . . If I understand your gliding scale of Modesty, the most petticoats dance in the shortest petticoats, and the purest of all in fig-leaves...
...necessary for a man to go to Harvard to be a lawyer, because practical lawyers must, necessarily, under modern conditions, be made in their own localities. "But it will be necessary for the instructor who teaches him in his own state to go took Harvard to understand what law is, what law has been, and what law ought to be." With the modern university, it is not a question of teaching everything--modern conditions make that impossible; it is a question of being the leader in the thought and expert instruction that every man needs, no matter where his locality...