Word: understand
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...understand the justice of giving preference to undergraduates, that is students of the College proper, but this, I submit, should be the only preference...
...Idea of God," "The Destiny of Man," and "Through Nature to God." His wide reputation was not due to books alone, as he was at one time the most popular American lecturer on serious subjects. In all his work his ability to make everything clear and easy to understand and to enliven the least interesting themes, made him familiar to all classes of people...
These two verses represent the contrasted conditions of college and of the outside world. College life and college standards of judgment are lenient; those of the world are severe and strict. Nor is the reason for this hard to understand. Men in college, with no keen competition of the world's life to drive them apart and with countless ties of common associations to draw them together, naturally come to regard and to trust one another as friends: individual struggle is the characteristic of the life of the outside world; there is less common sympathy and forbearance there than among...
Whereas the strength test is the only branch of intercollegiate athletic competition where an "H" is not awarded to the men who make the tam, I would suggest to the undergraduate members of the Athletic Committee, who, I understand, have the authority to decide questions of insignia, that action be token on some appropriate design for caps...
...simply humbug. They are all typically American, illustrating in every respect the American spirit: they have an essentially practical purpose. The American wishes to see quick returns in facts and successes; he has scarcely ever any comprehension of theory and real science. He has not yet had time to understand that scholarly truth is like a beautiful woman, who should be loved and honored for her own sake, while it is a degradation to value her only for her practical services: a Yankee brain today cannot grasp that...