Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...swimming coaches are now members of the Faculty "and give the entire academic year to the service of the university." The aim is 'to carry the ideals of the curriculum into all outdoor sports, so that every game shall develop intelligence and character." Presidence Faunce intends to be understood...
...Significance of this swift fantasy may be partly understood from the fact that it quickly sold into 58 editions last summer abroad. Only one side of a tremendous issue is represented, and that in light journalistic burlesque. As literature the book is only the skeleton for a monster social satire with a few lines of horseplay, suggestions for ironic masterstrokes, sketched in. As the Finance Minister is explaining his aspect of the law, his tongue gets caught in his false teeth. When the law is passed, Christian deputies rush, to make market speculations through their brokers, named Cohn, Kuhn, Kohen...
President Lowell arbitrarily classes American colleges into two types--vocational and cultural. In recognition of this distinction, one may hope, lies the remedy, for, if higher education, as it is understood in the vocational universities, is eminently practical, it can not be objected to as being over idealistic. A man trained in one method of earning his living has not wasted his opportunities. Everyone does not possess a scholastic temperament and those who insist on higher education for everyone "do not appreciate that all true education is self education, and that to force a boy, beyond a certain point...
...stage designing, a meticulous eye for details, and more than an attempt at recalling the best of French art in the little scenes within scenes in which the Comedie Francaise revels. The play is a show-piece. It has the further advantage for foreign consumption that it is readily understood. The enunciation of the players is nicely turned to aid foreign ears. But it is not necessary to depend upon the actors' speech. There is the program to fall back upon; and the very situations themselves are usually self-explanatory...
...became the country's leading German daily. An independent Democrat, he was national democratic treasurer in 1908. A thorough German, he defended the Kaiser during the War, as far as his U. S. patriotism would permit, daily publishing an editorial in English that his attitude might be clearly understood. He died poor owing to a large and unfortunate investment. Friends assumed his debts to keep his press properties intact, as they have been kept since, and added unto by his sons...