Word: understands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Scout Movement within the past three years has made the problem of securing adequate leadership a very engaging one. There is an evident and strong desire on the part of the boys for activities which the Boy Scout Movement furnishes but, unless men of large capacity, who understand and appreciate what scouting means, can see their way clear to give some serious time and attention to it, its development will not be as large as the field merits. A large number of men of character, enthusiasm and ability are needed in Greater Boston now to take up the Scout work...
...manufacturing cities, he said the comparatively small per cent. of the young men of the country who have the advantage of a college education should go out among the people whose language they have learned and by gaining an insight into their life render themselves capable of making them understand the proper course to pursue as citizens of the United States. He also recommended that our young men be educated in the use of Spanish so that we may be better able to maintain the Monroe Doctrine through the better control of business in South America and our insular possessions...
...only piece of fiction by Clarence Britten is not vital or significant enough to balance all the excellent criticism. Delicate, studied, as his stories always are, this one is a good example of the lack the average reader feels in them. One never feels he understands the people; one does not feel sure they understand each other. The author has so refined them that they are no longer the plain human sort one knows. Besides, they so seldom do anything worth while. They talk, not always brilliantly, and fade away somehow in whispers and twilight. They make one long...
...regular and frequent meetings open to all members of the University, thus establishing an official and representative forum for the discussion of any subjects of interest to men at Harvard. The Speakers' Club is not a mere honorary club for speakers of prominence. Its aims, as we understand them, are three--to be representative in membership democratic in influence, and of service to the University--and these three aims the Club seems to be realizing...
...standpoint of a graduate who took part in athletics when he was in college and has closely followed all Harvard contests since, the failure of the proper authorities up to the present time to increase the number of major sports by the addition of hockey is difficult to understand...