Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...common idea of colleges as "hot-beds of Bolshevism" indicates a popular failure to understand the most important function of a university. Above all, the undergraduate must learn to apply himself to his work and to choose between the various ideas and theories which are presented to him in the classroom and outside. It is all very well to protect the preparatory school youth from pernicious doctrines, but if the college student is to be guarded from the danger of standing on his own feet, it is hard to see how he is ever to learn to think for himself...
...part of a general movement to protect those members of the community who are neither part of the capitalist nor the labor organizations, a middle-class trade union has been formed in New York State. The situation which has given rise to this new movement is easy to understand. Capital and labor have been battling against each other without any regard for the community, prices have soared, everywhere the burden has fallen on the consumer. But a middle-class trade union will only open another antagonism...
...Princess was named Boston Evening Transcript. She was not a young princess, but she was not a young Princess, but she was vigorous and well-preserved. She could not understand the cowardice of her champions. They might have faltered, she reflected, had she ever allowed a thought to furrow her bleak brow. But she was sure she had never done that. Had she been a wanton, she thought, her plight might be explainable. But had she not, year after year, proclaimed to the world her immaculate chastity...
...faculty of Columbia University, of a course of instruction in contemporary civilization, prescribed for all Freshmen. The object of this course is to give the first-year college students an outlook on the modern world, as well as a point of view that will enable them better to understand and appreciate their subsequent studies...
...words should spur the country on to demand an end to the deadlock. In his criticism he has shown the greatest discretion in realizing that anything he might say to our discredit would soon be multiplied a hundred-fold. For nations are very much like individuals who do not understand each other, and gossip soon kindles into libel and hatred. By applying the highest principles of individual to national morality, Lord Grey has set a precedent which makes permanent peace less an idealist's dream...