Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Rebellion, so the Union might serve in a smaller, but just as honorable, way to keep alive the memory of the Harvard men who fought in Cuba. Why this suggestion, coming as it did from Major Higginson, has never been developed, we do not understand, or at least have never heard explained. It may be that the first few years of its existence the Union had little time for anything but experiments in the midst of which Major Higginson's suggestion was forgotten. Now, however, the position of the Union is well established, and we know no better...
...Montague is one of the very best types of Southern gentlemen I have ever met: a gentlemen of great culture, of high ideals, a fascinating personality, and a finished and eloquent speaker. One of the great needs of our country is that the North and South should better understand one another. Harvard University could desire no better interpreter of the best ethical and political thought of the South than it will have in Ex-Governor Montague. LYMAN ABBOTT...
...interpretation of what President Roosevelt has said about intercollegiate athletics and courage differs from Professor Francke's. The President contends, as I understand him, that intercollegiate athletics promote college athletics in general, and that college athletics in general promote manly qualities--among them courage. The "weakness" which he sees in abolishing football is the weakness of a confessed inability to make the game clean. L. B. R. BRIGGS...
...give rise to inventions, these should be common property, and not exclusively a source of wealth to the few who happen to find them. Mr. Mallock showed that such intricate inventions as are frequent nowadays would be of no use to men of limited capacity, as they could not understand their uses. Only minds fitted by education can profit by extensive discoveries...
Small is the use of those educated men who in after life meet no one but themselves, and gather in parlors to discuss wrong conditions which they do not understand and to advocate remedies which have the prime defect of being unworkable. The judgment on practical affairs, political and social, of educated men who keep aloof from the conditions of practical life, is apt to be valueless to those other men who do really wage effective war against the forces of baseness and evil. From the political standpoint, education is a harm and not a benefit to the men whom...