Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...servant of the people, he said, must be one of them to appreciate their needs, to understand their feelings, and to be able to represent them honestly. The best test of a man's real worth for public capacity, and one of its most broadening influences, is contact with common life, for the intellectual and moral force of the American people is the greatest that the world has ever seen. The American soldier, standing as the does for self-sacrificing devotion to the republic, is a good example of the attitude that should be taken in public life...
...those who give a moment's thought to the matter, it is not difficult to understand the attitude of the Faculty upon this question. That body quite rightly reasons that if athletics have come to such a pass that at the termination of a season an athlete must leave Cambridge to the serious detriment of his college work, then measures should be taken, in the way of cutting down schedules, to alleviate this abnormal physical strain upon the constitution of said athlete...
This reform plan must have the great element of permanency; for personal following is of no use unless it is permanent and organized. This organization has been held together thus far by patronage and feat; but now new cement must be found by making business men understand that the material prosperity of the country will go with good politics...
...three Deans, it was believed, would be relieved of much of the responsibility by the intended appointment of a general athletic manager. Until very recently no such manager was appointed, and the time of three very busy men was accordingly heavily taxed. At first the Deans did not altogether understand the work, but now they are in touch with the conditions and are proving most efficient members of the committee...
...been all too likely to become an outsider in everything but name, through no fault of his own and no fault of the other students. The foreigner, with different points of view, has not been encouraged to approach his American classmates, whose ideas and ideals he cannot altogether understand. The undergraduates on the other land have become absorbed in their own interests and overlooked the presence of those who have come so far to join the ranks of Harvard...