Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Education does not mean the ability to lamas a large number of facts but the ability to correlate and understand intelligently what the facts mean and their relative importance. Students who have the ability to learn and recall minute details and unrelated data without any attempt at creative thinking or originality certainly do not deserve to be graduated with honors, as many of them now are. Only with the abolition of course grades can the proper emphasis be given to those attributes of thinking that distinguish an educated man from an uneducated...
What we can't quite understand is why innocent looking match boxes were entrusted with such a heavy responsibility. For on one side they bear the picture of a cocktail shaker and on the other they have recipes for side-cars, liberties, and manhattans. Topping the whole business is a motto, entitled "Your Favorite Cocktail...
Today at nine in the New Lecture Hall Professor Baxter will talk about the Peace of Versailles, revealing its inadequacies and explaining how it came to be. Those who would seek to understand the world today would do well to hear...
...earnings of the student workers amounted to $2318.50. In 1931 earnings rose to $2938.34. Last fall students received $3352.56 from work on the concessions. When the sharp decline in attendance at football games is taken into consideration, this steady advance in earnings becomes doubly significant. It is hard to understand why an organization which can increase its earnings fifty per cent in spite of a decrease in the number of potential customers should be characterized as lacking in efficiency...
...this exhibition certain pieces, such as the Maori ancestor god or the New Ireland cult mask, bear a definite relation to the ethnic type, yet are far removed from realistic sculpture as we understand it. Others, such as the Congo chief's stool or the Congo woman holding a bowl, bear an even remoter resemblance, though dynamic and significant works...