Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Without question the biggest need in connection with industrial unrest is jobs,--steadier jobs, better jobs, jobs whose value and importance to other people and the world in general is better understood by the doers of them, jobs under officials who are more anxious to aid the full enjoyment of the satisfactions that the doers of those jobs and the renderers of those services feel themselves entitled to enjoy...
Does the CRIMSON mean the inference that those serving on the Committee now are not reputable? Is it to be understood that Jane Addams, Joseph Wingate Folk, Frederick Clemson Howe, James H. Maurer and David I. Walsh are of a category to be shunned and contemned by Harvard gentlemen? Probably not! However, I feel that the CRIMSON did not know what it thought, if I can go so far as to assume that it was thinking at all. Reputable Americans! To be reputable, must one refuse to feel for suffering...
...year 1920 must take its place with 1848 as a year of revolution. Even the academic world has been swept into the maelstrom--the most conspicuous fighting occurring at Ithaca, N. Y. Like the daily revolutions in Russia the causes of the Cornell outbreak are little understood by the outside world, the official dispatches being few and far between. Some interesting facts, however, may be gleaned from the report of the special Committee appointed from the Student Council and the two Senior Honorary Societies concerning the relations of women to the University...
Mark Sullivan '00, the famous newspaper correspondent, will speak at the Union in the fifth of the main lecture series, next Monday, December 13, at 8 o'clock. It is understood that he will deal with the problems confronting President-elect Harding and his cabinet, such as immigration, taxation, labor and foreign relations...
...special problem just mentioned has established, be of any practical use? Who can tell? Many years elapsed before Faraday's electrical experiments bore fruit in a practical electric lighting system and in the trolley car. The laws of nature can not be intelligently applied until they are understood. To understand them, however, many experiments bearing upon the fundamental nature of things must be made, and the unknown laws underlying the nature of elements are among the most fundamental of these laws of nature...