Word: understandables
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...purposes, the practical or the cultural, and it will be only by changing the purpose of those who enter Harvard that the right emphasis can be gained. Raising admission requirements will not help; changing their quality might. But chiefly it will be a matter of making prospective students understand the aims of the college. They must know that they are not wanted if they come merely to increase their earning capacity. They must be brought into sympathy with the ideal of an education which trains not for immediate power in one position, but for potential power in any. Discrimination, then...
...mentioned the occupations, in addition to the regular practice, which are open to students who take up medicine, including teaching positions, laboratory work, and concentration in public health and sanitation methods. Dr. Thayer stated, finally, that for success in the medical profession a man must have ability to understand and sympathize with human beings, a broad general education as a basis for congeniality with his patients, and a large store of optimism and patience...
...give more space by far to comic pictures that introduce the same characters in unending series than they give to all the doings of all governments, foreign and domestic. This is not remarked by way of finding fault with the newspapers. It is intended rather to help the reader understand how it happens that public opinion, in relation to the affairs of Congress, drifts so easily from indifference and neglect to impatience and disparagement...
...unnaturally feels, especially after new and alluring fields of human inquiry have been opened to him, that further occupation with the Classics would be a waste of time. He has undoubtedly derived benefit from his study of Greek and Latin grammar; he has learned from them to understand his own language better. He has studied great authors, but, perforce, studied them piece-meal with little comprehension of their art or the reasons for their fame. Tired of parsing and translating, he imagines that these acts make up the sum and substance of college courses in the Classics and turns with...
...imagery, but for the larger matters of literary form. The moderns are not less original for this homage to tradition; in fact, it is not until we know tradition that we can know how original they are. If we should study the historical milieu of a writer to understand the purpose and the atmosphere of his work, it is no less necessary to examine his literary milieu, the books which have aroused his imagination and formed his taste. From this point of view, the Classics of Greece and Rome have been contemporary with every age. Even in the full flush...