Word: understand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Certainly no student of the University who desires to understand the great advances made in the photographic art of recent years, and to enjoy a rare opportunity for comparison of interesting geological forms from various localities, should fail to visit the photographic exhibition of the Geological Department, at present being held in Massachusetts Hall. Regarded from the standpoint of photography, the various portions of the exhibition are of unequal merit. The fine mountain-work of Sella and of Jackson rather casts into the shade the remainder of the collection. Yet the subjects of all the photographs are so interesting, that...
...there were no special laboratories at Harvard during these years, it is difficult to understand how chemistry and physics and the other sciences were taught. When Professor Cooke was first appointed a full professor he was unusully young and unexperienced, but it was owing to his zeal and energy that the first chemical laboratory was instituted. It was in the northwestern basement of University Hall, the northeastern basement being occupied by a baker's shop. Professor Cooke first ousted the baker in extending his laboratory, and a year or two later obtained more convenient quarters upstairs, effecting many of these...
...order to understand our Bibles we study Greek, yet this preparation by means of study is not to be compared with the possession of the faculty of seeing and understanding God's revelations when they are shown to us in simple things. Possessing this faculty our present life is not an isolated one, short and uncertain, but merely a part or beginning of the eternal life. But without the consciousness of God's presence in all nature, life loses its purpose and degenerates into a cold, hopeless existence...
...Vincent said, is "God our Saviour," just as the keynote-the theme of themes of the Book of books is Salvation. Salvation is a state of perfect moral health, and of perfect adjustment to the spiritual world of which we are a part. Just as a child need not understand the complexity of electricity in order to turn on a light by merely moving a switch, so we need not know the philosophy of salvation to be saved. Salvation is possible and effective (through Christ); it is a reality...
...years, gave an interesting talk upon "The Strategy of the Game." He defined strategy as the best use of opportunity and showed the strategic value of various parts of the field, of certain seconds of time and of the advantage to be gained by having the whole team understand "the why" of every play...