Word: understands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...trouble with the old prison system was that we did not understand the characters of the men who have been sent to prison, and because they have been equally ignorant of us," said Thomas Mott Osborne '84, speaking before a large gathering in the First Parish Church House last evening. "The men thought that the only difference between themselves and the men who convicted them was that the other men ad not been caught. This was the wrong view to take and it was our task to change their opinions and to make them men who would be of service...
...punted better than he did the week before, and while Yale is pointing toward Princeton and Harvard, the latter more so than the Princeton game, much trouble may be expected from Brown next Saturday, . . . . If Colgate had had a back of the type of Casey, of Harvard, who, I understand, is able to sidestep and dodge with skill, we would have had a touchdown...
...have good public administration we must unite our efforts and powers in the same way. We must utilize the researches of the scientific expert of every kind, physicist or chemist, physician or engineer, jurist or statistician; but we must have this work directed and organized by men who understand the conduct of business in the best sense of the word. The same spirit of co-operation is needed in order to bring our standards of public morality into line with the needs of the age. We must be equally ready to learn lessons of history from the historian or lessons...
Announcement of an increase of $400 in the salary of every full professor at Brown University is a move that will encourage many besides those professors and their families. It is difficult to understand why teaching should so long have been one of the most poorly paid professions, but that the tide has turned, in the university and in the secondary school, accumulating evidence proves. No longer are teachers in boys' schools, for example, paid the meager salaries that led Charles Dickens to plead their cause in his portrayal of Mr. Mell, the master of Salem House, whose boots were...
...Wynne Matthison seem to have stepped from the canvasses of Holbein at Hampton Court, so veracious are they in posture and costume. But they do more than fill the eye. The vigor and pulse of their reality and the magnetism of their life touch our emotions and make us understand the human qualities of these princely beings...