Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Haven, and Hartford, and the Boston and Maine Railroads is a step in the right direction. Practical knowledge will thus be combined with theory in the best possible way. The student will become acquainted with actual problems, with the difficulties of the business. The theorist will be able to understand the practical point of view, and the business man, the theorist's. The course will be able to trainmen for Railroads, not with outworn ideas, but with specific knowledge of the most modern problems. This type of thing may bring about the much needed co-operation between the university economist...
Chief blame for race troubles in Hawaii was placed by Admiral William Veazie Pratt on the "beach boys"?half-castes hired to instruct tourists in swimming and surfboard riding. These brown bucks, it was explained, do not understand the easy familiarity between the sexes sanctioned in the Occident. They mistake a white woman's smiling friendliness for an invitation to license. According to Admiral Pratt, the laxity with respect to sex crimes in Hawaii is due "just to the nature of things...
...time when every scholarship could easily be put to immediate use, this situation is nothing short of a calamity. The University is powerless to use any of this money that is tied up for any purposes other than those specified. Yale's only hope is that her benefactors will understand the true meaning of generosity. Yale News
...party in Mt. Vernon, N. Y. to celebrate her 73rd birthday, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, told newsmen: "I do not know much about the Manchurian situation, but from what I gather there is some mysterious cause for it all that we Occidentals cannot understand. . . . Incidentally, somebody has to spank Japan and China for the way they have been acting. I wonder how that will be done...
...doubtful, however, if even a person with his conscientious integrity can single-handed do much to improve a game which has consistently resisted a house cleaning. Able legislators and competent public-spirited citizens have tried before and failed and if it is possible that Mr. Casey does not understand the character of the field which he is entering he should be warned of its nature. In all his transactions he will be carrying the name of Harvard to which he owes his first responsibility...