Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Sheriff Fairbairn, known for many years as the Grand Old Man of Middlesex County, has died will not seem to be of great importance to the average Harvard student, but when he realizes that his degree cannot be legal unless the High Sheriff opens the ceremonies, he will understand the significant part this kindly old gentleman has played in Harvard life for the last thirty three years. At every commencement since 1899 he has donned his blue court coat with gold buttons, his white waistcoat, and top hat, and has marched in the annual June academic procession to open...
Marked advances are now being made, and one of the most important of them concerns the study of school children in order to understand their needs and their possibilities. A teacher formerly graded his pupils on the scale of 100. It has been shown that no two teachers, or even the same teacher on two occasions, are likely to give the same numerical rating to the same piece of work. Even the best English teachers have varied 30 per cent or more among themselves in marking compositions...
...hammered into the coffin; Isabella d'Este, first lady of her time; Julius II, hardbitten, bearded warrior Pope; Lucrezia Borgia, who "had four charms, not to mention a slight voluptuous cast in one eye. She was vapid, she was virtuous, she smelled of man, and she did not understand art." For graphic historical writing, Author Roeder's picture of the sack of Rome (1527) will stand with the best of them. And everywhere through the magnificent murk sound the great names, like bells: Borgia, Delia Rovere, Medici, Este. Gonzaga, Sforza...
...public James Joyce's "Ulysses," or for that matter, any book, on the grounds that it is "obscene, lewd, disgusting," is, to put it mildly, ridiculous. "Ulysses" itself is an excellent case in point, since it is practically certain that none of those who wish it banned can understand more than three consecutive words of the volume...
...sense of proportion. With the one they smile at those who would divide up all the money in the nation on a per capita basis every Saturday night and at those who lament that they would rather possess pounds and francs than dollars. With our sense of proportion we understand and accept the fact that, in the short space of one year, we cannot cure the chronic illness that beset us for a dozen years...