Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...there were four thousand invitations sent to the students alone, it was thought that perhaps another year, only the new men, who might not know about these Teas, need by invited by note. All the students, who are here this winter, would understand the cordial invitation, which is always printed in the CRIMSON every week; so that only the new-comers would need a note. About this proposal for next year--it is only a proposal--there seems to have been a slight misunderstanding. The Committee wish it distinctly understood, that every student in the University will always be welcome...
...three plays in the trilogy. None is perhaps better suited to give an idea of Grillparzer's peculiar distinction as a dramatist than "Medea." The first two members of the trilogy, "The Guest-Friend" and "The Argonauts," are the necessary supplements of the "Medea" in order to understand fully the development of the heroine's character...
...customs in Parliamentary procedure. While, for example, lounging, yawning, and sleeping during an opponent's speech is a common matter, leaving the chamber without bowing before the speaker's chair is unheard of. But many of the irrevocable customs, ridiculous as they may seem to one who does not understand their meaning, were, at the time of their institution, founded on necessary circumstances, and therefore worthy of respect. In the paraphernalia, customs, and associations of Westminster Abbey, historic past and actual present are strangely mingled...
...long number of years have Harvard students had such an opportunity, as is offered now by his courses, to be led into the spirit of German literature. Especially his course on the modern German drama cannot help being of the greatest possible value to all those who wish to understand the important intellectual movements which now are stirring Europe. KUNO FRANCKE
...success in proportion to the amount of skill required to develop a new enterprise and to the gravity of the risks to be run, as well as in proportion to the amount of money invested in it. And directors in any business corporation ought to be men who understand the business of that corporation and not men who sell their names to a boar of whose work they know nothing...