Word: understands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...each until the whole cycle is completed. The stations are placed in certain plants not merely because of the importance of the industries that are there in operation, but because those industries well illustrate certain fundamental processes that it is of the first importance that chemical engineers should thoroughly understand...
Most Americans that admire France above all nations in the present war, admire her because her people seem generally to have an intelligent understanding of why they are fighting. For University students who want to know the why of war there is a "camp" at Cleveland the last ten days of June. The object of this student conference is to find the "rational foreign policy for the United States." At last year's conference at Cornell Major Putnam, Hamilton Holt, Norman Angell, Hudson Maxim, Andrew D. White, and others presented very divergent views. The camp this year will be addressed...
...year's work in order to take account of their intellectual stock. In the majority of cases the results fail to fulfill their earlier resolutions and expectations. Some have accumulated a store of facts which will be promptly forgotten after the examinations, while a few have been able to understand the relative purpose of a particular course and to obtain a little permanent enlightenment...
Many articles have appeared during the past year revealing the shocking ignorance of college men concerning the progress of the great war. A recent issue of the Independent Magazine makes this statement: "We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it." Between the conflicting fires of an English official communication, a Berlin official report, and a French communique, it takes more than an intelligent person to read the news of a single engagement and understand which forces gained the advantage. After a series of attempts to untangle the contradictory statements...
...been scolded in many a chapel talk and editorial for neglect of the papers. To us, the results of this quiz seem to show that they are guilty of something far less excusable. We fear that they have been reading the war news, but have made no effort to understand it. Such diligence and complete absorption in the required studies as to prevent a student from looking at a daily, or even a weekly, would indeed be unwise, but not discouraging. But to think that students, of all people, should read day by day the narrative of the epoch-making...