Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Fay says, "It might constitute a history of things American, but it is not a history of the American people. . . and it fails to convince." America, says Professor Fay, requires an historian like Turner. His country "interested him so profoundly, he had tried so hard to understand her, to perceive her, and to explain her, that in the process he reached a plane of moral nobility and intellectual clarity higher than that on which his contemporaries take their stand...
...twelve feet of glacial drift in Ottertail County, Minn.-first proof that man lived on this continent during glacial times. Next month Dr. Jenks's Minnesota maid will be a cynosure at the Atlantic City gathering of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Trained eyes will understand why the anthropologists and paleontologists, who for weeks have been studying her skull with microscope and calipers, classify her as a Mongoloid type, more Eskimo than Indian. Professor Jenks puts her age at 17½ years. From a nick on the inner side of her shoulder blade he deduces...
...stressed, it seems to me, is that such a treatment of the subject would have its greatest value if it were frankly designed for the student with a casual rather than a professional interest in the Drama. It is a part of the equipment of an educated man to understand the purposes of the various prose and poetical forms, and the drama being, as is often said, the synthesis of all the arts, it should certainly be given a more complete treatment than the disgracefully scanty one now accorded it here at Harvard. John Cornell...
When Basso Feodor Chaliapin came to the U. S. in 1915, 40 newsmen encircled the greatest of singing-actors. Some one asked him about artistic conditions in Russia and Chaliapin at once began a 15-minute soliloquy which no one could understand. He clasped his beautiful hands over his heart, nourished them wildly in the air. Newsmen sat spellbound until he finished, then asked Manager Sol Hurok to translate. Manager Hurok shrugged his shoulders: "Russia? Oh, it's just about the same...
...classics for their judgment; those teachers lose sight of the fact that good writing is dependent, not on "the effective humanization of a child" but on the rigorous exercise of writing in imitation of good authors. When abecedarians begin to speak of "effective humanization of a child" one can understand the distrust which intelligent foreigners so often have of the American public school system...