Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...self-government. There is nowhere in the league a sentence which raises the slightest doubt on this point. For the most part the covenant of the league is a collection of agreements which the members make to each other for the purpose of doing away with war. To understand these promises and agreements we should first know what are the causes of wars. They may be listed as follows...
Senator Harding in his speech of October 7th is reported to have said: "I understand the position of the Democratic nominee and he understands mine. In simple words it is that he favors going into the Paris league and I favor staying out." In view of the fact that the League of Nations is the vital issue of the campaign, a Cox-Roosevelt Club has been formed for the effective organization of pro-League sentiment among the students of the University. Believing that the League is the greatest moral issue with which the people of the United States has ever...
...active teachers is a comparatively new departure; and one peculiarly interesting in view of the outcry which has been everywhere raised of late against the prevailing low rates of remuneration for teachers. This complaint is in large part justified. From one point of view, however, it is easy to understand why even the best masters and instructors have been unable to command advancing high salaries with the rising cost of existence...
Stepping out of a small college comes to Harvard, unknown and unheralded and, it would seem, ignored, the Unclassified Student. Not backed by fellow Freshmen, or supported by friends in the upper classes, he is indeed lost in the whirl of college activities. To find and understand his fellow scholars is almost impossible. The University for him becomes a great industrial plant, each man selfishly pursuing his own affairs, wrapped up in his own friends, enveloped in "Harvard indifference." Surely something can be done to make the path of the Unclassified Student easier...
...Freshmen we have Senior advisors--men who understand the feelings and attitude of their younger fellows. Can not Senior advisors be assigned to unclassified students? They of all students are alone. They of all students should find the true Harvard. We ought not to neglect this class of undergraduates, but help them. We ought not only to assign Senior advisors but to give them credit when they have earned credit, honors when they have earned honors, and to make them feel that they are real members of the University...