Word: understands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enabled us to see more clearly the events which occurred between 1636 and the granting of the charter to the President and Fellows in 1650. Thanks to the labors of the historians we are able to appreciate more fully than did Quincy the spirit of the founders and to understand more completely the significance of their bold plan. And with the increase in our knowledge comes a more than proportional increase in our admiration. As you have heard, the Puritans' ambition was none other than to transplant to an untamed forest the ancient university tradition. They would be satisfied with...
...middle of the last century, in 1867 to be exact, the head of one of the Oxford colleges, an eminent scholar and educational reformer, saw no evidence that the university tradition had ever taken root in the United States. "America has no universities as we understand the term" he wrote, "the institutions so called being merely places for granting titular degrees." Taken literally this harsh judgment is undoubtedly false, and yet I venture to think that it is not a gross exaggeration of the situation which then existed. The new spirit moving within the educational institutions of this country...
...ragged a fellow for the company. Wistfully musing, till reconciled by the happy thought that religious democracy isn't Puritan and John Harvard was. Felt cheered in my heart, moreover, by prospect of a morning of speeches that even the Vagabond and his merry fellows could understand, after so promiscuous a display of forbidding wisdom...
...American ideal of free thought. For awhile the publishing world is led by men who believe in free investigation and research, the press plays the part of a helpful guide, forming a public opinion that is devoid of prejudice and mass hatred and tolerant of things it cannot fully understand. But today a militant section of the publishing business stands ready to throttle the academic liberty which is the lifeblood of the press itself, as well as of schools and colleges...
...Latin version. The translation was the work of a completely unknown Dutch dominie, the usual Calvinistic medicine-men of the sixteen hundred and seventies. There really was no excuse for my getting the little book except that I like to read well-flowing Latin poetry. I could of course understand only half of everything I read. But I am after the metre...