Word: understandables
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...clubs, the Jews because they may not be athletes, the commutes because they may not add the local color that Brown gives to Harvard. The assumption is made by even Mr. Villard that the "assimilable" man is nothing but the "clubbable" man. That this betrays almost complete failure to understand the meaning of the Student Council report must be obvious. There is a curious confusion in the meanings of the word "social" which leads to a more pernicious confusion of thought. The argument for the new admission ruling on the grounds that it has a foundation in social efficacy...
Although the metropolitan press has in some instances read into the reports of the Officers and Committees of the Associated Harvard Clubs, issued as a supplement to the current issue of the Alumni Bulletin, various and sundry sensational meanings, there is no reason to understand these reports as other than same and satisfying commentaries on the activities of the University. For none can find any gross departure from the level of understanding and appreciative critical of existing conditions, criticism in which there is much of praise and little if any blame...
Even from the laborer's point of view, it is difficult to understand the advantage of a general strike whose full weight must be borne by the working men themselves. Strikes in a single industry have time and again proven beneficial to labor, shortening hours and increasing pay. But a deliberate paralysis of industrial necessities would seem to threaten the very existence of the present form of society, to attempt the imposition of the will of the Trade Union Congress on parliament. It makes little difference in the final outcome whether a revolution be accomplished by bloodless starvation or gory...
...their works have spent a good deal of money on costumes and left the rest to the words and music. In reality the operas need the deft and specialized treatment demanded by any unique type of entertainment. Probably most producers, preoccupied with sex appeal and the Charleston, do not understand Gilbert and Sullivan. It has remained for Winthrop Ames to reveal them so perfectly that everyone may understand and may enjoy...
...however, understand the numerals on their monuments, and have thus been able to establish an accurate chronology of the last 25 centuries...