Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Milton's canon, that poetry should be simple, sensuous and passionate, the poem is faithful to; it has burning passion and sensuous description; but it has not simplicity. Simplicity involves clearness, without which a poem fails to produce its intended effect. Here I am not sure that I understand the emotional situation: what is the "pain" for which God is to be thanked, and why must the lovers be "brave" in their love? One may surmise the explanation, but it does not seem to me that the poem makes it clear. The piece has emotional and descriptive power. The verse...
...governor sent out to a people must rule for the benefit of the governed and must understand them. Although we take great care in the selection of the men who are to fill the political positions in this country, we send young and inexperienced men out to the Philippines. Lord Cromer was in Egypt for 18 years; we have had four governors of the islands in eight years. The news that we receive from the East is neither complete nor exact. Only the reports that are allowed to be sent are what we get in this country. There...
...announcement is made on another page that the University band will not be taken to New Haven as in former years. This action, we have been given to understand, has not been taken because of the inferiority of the band to other years. Quite the contrary is true. There has been a general feeling that this year's band is somewhat more of a band than we have had in former years. The decision seems to have been made, however, not on the basis of a comparison with other years, but through the desire to have a thoroughly capable...
...engineering, whenever these subjects are shown to have an important bearing on the student's ultimate line of business. Courses in French, German, and Spanish Correspondence will be offered with the special object of enabling graduates of the School to read and write letters in these languages and to understand the accepted forms of business correspondence. Students who pass in the first year's work in Commercial Law will be admitted to courses in the Law of Sales, Agency, Insurance, Admiralty, Quasi-Contracts, Municipal Corporations, and Public Service, given by the Faculty of Law. In addition to students regularly enrolled...
There has always been in the past a Glamentable lack of understanding between the teaching staff and the students, due party, no doubt in the Harvard system of instruction by lectures and conferences. The Faculty does not always understand the undergraduate world, and the ways of the powers that be are to most undergraduates incomprehensible...