Word: understands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...been made of the marks received by the Freshman class during the first half-year. A fair idea of the relation of these two groups may now be obtained, for the double system of admission has been in practice for three years. The present Freshmen had ample opportunity to understand what the requirements were...
...expects them to spend some time--a few years--in mastering the routine, the personnel, the organization, markets, and finance of the particular business that they enter. But it sends every graduate into this practical experience equipped with a knowledge of business principles and mechanisms that will make him understand from the start the relation of his particular job to the whole scheme; and this knowledge ought to make his advance more rapid than that of the young man who begins without this preparation. The school realizes that the business leader must have aptitude, character, initiative; and that no sort...
...additional advantages are many. In the first place the student who takes such a position is doing a real service, not only to the foreigners but also to the American missions and institutions abroad. He is given the opportunity to see at first hand, and to understand the work Americans are doing in the Orient. In view of the rapid advancement and growth of the East, it is a rare chance to study closely the economic and political conditions of Japan and China, as well as of our own possessions. There is an additional attraction offered to medical students...
...Chief-of Staff of the United States Army, will give a talk on "Students' Military Instruction Camps," in the Living Room of the Union this evening at 8.30 o'clock. The lecture will be of exceptional interest to the undergraduates, because it will give them a chance to fully understand these summer camps for the military training of college students, by the originator of the plan...
...they are looked upon as the tombstones of Harvard individualism. But criticism or no criticism, the dormitories stand by the river in extremely solid and tangible form, and are to be occupied next fall. Their possibilities for good or evil have been pretty thoroughly thrashed out, so that we understand the pros and cons and have formed our opinions. We can argue and argue on them without affecting their course beyond a few details; and we can wear holes in the threadbare subject of their potential influence on individualism, accomplishing little except the creation of the holes. Suggestions...