Word: understand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the war, and the vital questions that it has raised. The lectures, we can feel sure, will be attended not only by the few who have the wisdom to seek additional opportunities for education, but by the many who want to increase their general knowledge, and to understand as well as possible the varied phases of the epoch through which they live. In past years the lectures at the Union filled this need to a large extent, but only with the closing of the Union came the realization of its value and the work it did. The University...
...best way to see and understand the state is to have an interest in its social problems. To cultivate a spirit of fraternity is the only way; not pity or the kind of fraternity that makes a man so sensitive that he can't bear to ride in a street car because there are women standing in it, but fraternity such as exists between farmers when they get together for a barn raising. Every contact with the average man is a way of teaching democracy...
...take a stand for what they really belive in will soon find that they have obtained a real following and that their little group has been doubled or quadrupled. He advised the Freshmen to come together in such small groups to think things over and really get to understand themselves...
Then comes the stamp tax on bank checks. This is tyranny indeed, and we can well understand what Patrick Henry was so huffy about back in colonial days. For this gruelling measure intends to charge us for every check we write. How many times have we sought to impress our creditors around Harvard Square with what affluence we were possessed! We thought nothing of presenting a check for an account of thirty-nine cents ten months overdue. Our signatures did look well on those pieces of evidence. But this mus all a thing of the good old past...
...nuisance by most men. They should not be regarded as a nuisance. There are times when nothing will replace speech, spoken with the tongue. The education of no gentleman is finished without his acquiring the ability to tell a German what he is, in a language he may understand...