Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...case, they who undertake to defend civilization against its enemies must understand the grounds of the accusation. They must also know what civilization has to say for itself on economic grounds. In short, they must understand our industrial system, and know wherein it is strong and wherein it is weak, wherein it may be improved and to what extent it must be reformed. This presents a large field of study for the student of economics...
...hard for us to understand how people can have found the English language serviceable from the days of Chaucer to our own without the new and now widely employed term "bolshevism." What does it mean? Answer: The result that will follow the success of the other fellow's idea...
Through these organizations the opportunities offered here could be made known to every prospective college candidate in the country. Even more vital, however, is personal effort on the part of Harvard graduates. They must remember that all people do not understand the University. They must take pains to show them for what it stands. This is an old time method of arousing interest but it is certain to make Harvard as desirable in the West as it now is here...
When the national House of Representatives adopted its resolution on the right of self-determination for Ireland diplomatic discretion was apparently absent from that part of the Capitol. Without at all considering the merits of the English-Irish controversy, it is difficult to understand how the House felt itself called upon to express an official opinion, uninvited, upon the affairs of another nation. The danger to the friendly relations now existing between England and the United States which accompanies such action by the representatives is realized if we point the resolution in the other direction, and consider what a storm...
...desirable university for this national need. One thing she lacks: advertisement. It is the fault of Harvard graduates that their confidence in the Alma Mater's superiority never permits them to explain her advantages. But because her advantages are so well understood by them is no assurance that others understand. Harvard needs the southerner and westerner. Unless she is to dwindle into a local university she must recruit more of her sons from the great regions beyond New England. They bring a new point of view which stimulates her own. Perhaps to an even greater degree, the West and South...