Word: understand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said he realized the Council "wasn't perfect" but that now he "knew the students understand that we are doing our best...
...notwithstanding, most students here are quite normal. But the staff of the Grant Study takes exception to the old saw that normal people are the most uninteresting of the lot. In a small brick building on Holyoke Street, next to the Hygiene Department, the Study has been trying "to understand better the adjustment of healthy college people" for the past 11 years...
...Council member David C. Poskanzer '50 said he could not understand the necessity for a set of rules 24 pages long. In "questioning the whole philosophy of these rules," Poskanzer said, "No rules can possibly cover every particular situation, so I think five pages should hold all the requirements necessary...
...Please Close the Door." But most of the children had deeper trouble. The most clearly retarded ones had to be taught to wash and feed themselves, and to understand such simple instructions as "Please close the door." For them there were courses in handicrafts, exercises to improve muscle coordination. For those less retarded but held back by emotional disturbances, e.g., a ten-year-old who vomited whenever he became excited, there were courses in reading and writing, and patient guidance...
...will never understand Yugoslavia if you look at us as merely a part of the U. S. Soviet rift," Joze Vilfan, Yugoslavian delegate to the United Nations told a Harvard Liberal Union forum in Emerson D last night...