Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Student Council meets on Wednesday its first business will be to decide what part Harvard is to take in the national movement for student action in regard to the Disarmament Conference. Before then it is fitting that this movement should be understood and should be discussed as widely as possible...
...express to the government what results they believe the conference should achieve. Their opinion may or may not be representative; it will certainly be of value to many who are vitally interested in the success of the conference by lack the power of expression to make their will adequately understood...
Someone has said that it is safe to go to a play by Bernard Shaw provided that you do not take him seriously. It has also been suggested that Shaw will never be understood until he is captured alone, without an audience, and held to a direct answer of "Yes" or "No" to every question put to him. These two semi-truisms are by no means the be all and end all of Shaviainism; but they go a long way in helping most of us to understand the playwright. "Getting Married," playing this week at the Copley, is no exception...
...solution is easy if only the employers will recognize it. There is plenty of work to be done, and there are plenty of jobs for students, if one simple truth is understood. There is a prejudice against student workers because they are believed to be inefficient. But it is a well-recognized economic fact that prevalence of unemployment produces efficient labor. This fact is perfectly applicable to the local situation. And it is perfectly fair to the student worker. He is not asking for charity. He expects to give a satisfactory day's wages. Looked at from either side...
...planned to hold a similar four-weeks Institute next year at the same place and with the same sort of program and it is hoped that these meetings may become annual events. It should be understood that the Institute does not exist to spread propaganda but to provide an opportunity for the fullest and frankest of discussion...