Word: understandables
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...would be largely avoided if Cabinet members could participate in the debates, - (a) This is shown (1) by the example of England; Practical working of our Government, p. 13 f. and -(2) By the example of France and Italy; Annals of Amer. Acad., p. 5. - (b) Congress would better understand the needs of the country which are known to the executive department; Atlantic p. 96.- (c) There would be less opportunity for Cabinet officers to evade inquiries of Congress; Wilson...
...skill and merit unattended by needless risk, that Harvard made her propositions; and it is gratifying to perceive the predominance of this spirit in the other colleges as shown by the way in which they joined with Harvard in the reform. We are rather at a loss to understand Yale's stand in regard to the tug-of-war, especially as she voted for its abolition last year, and as the sentiment of the college, judging from editorial expression in the Yale News not three weeks ago was until recently in favor of abolishing the event...
...students shall investigate matters and go beyond him. A teacher of geography must therefore have a knowledge of the basis on which geography rests, that is the physical development of the country. An intelligent and lively class is naturally full of questions and to answer these the teacher must understand the causes of every change and peculiarity on the country's surface. Better to illustrate this point, Professor Davis took the case of waterfalls and explained, with stereopticon views, the different kinds of waterfalls classified according to a physical basis. The first case is where a stream comes...
...brought to degradation. They refuse to go West, but remain couped up in cities and the so-called "sweating system" is a result. Protection claims to protect the American laborer and yet she allows our ports to be open to cheap and pauper labor. These foreigners do not understand our ways of government. They cannot distinguish between unrestricted freedom and liberty, thus anarchism and the numerous cliques and secret societies, with all their evils, arise. Law is the expression of public sentiment and if we put the control of elections into the hands of the immigrant our law will...
...rather pointless sketch of two boys one of whom drowns under circumstances somewhat difficult to understand finishes the number...