Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Hall pointed out that it is the ability to understand the universe and to take into consideration the physical and mental differences between the nations of the world that opens a wider scope to the soul. He showed the essential difference between the East and West. The West is governed by the great desire to "do." The philosophy of energy is instinctive. As Matthew Arnold says, "Worship of machinery supplants reverence for God. The East, on the other hand, is mastered by the conviction of the unreality of the world. All things, all persons, are but shadows to the oriental...
President Eliot delivered an address at the Prospect Union yesterday afternoon on "Just Reverence Consistent with Genuine Democracy." He showed that in order to have a true belief in permanent democracy it is necessary to understand that democracy does not destroy reverence, but increases it in an altered form. The democratic reverence is not a reverence for symbols, but for the facts behind the symbols; an estimate of the true value. The great movement of the world today is towards democracy, which one hundred years from today will exceed any present conception. If the democracy of this great country...
Esperanto, the best known of the artificial languages, was invented by Dr. L. L. Zamenhof, a Russian. The Esperanto grammar can be learned in less than half an hour, and the vocabulary in a month or six weeks. Anyone reading Esperanto at sight can understand a large proportion of it. The key to the language can be mailed with a letter so that the recipient of the letter may be sure of getting its entire meaning. Over half a million people are now able to speak and write Esperanto. At a recent Congress of "Esperantists," people from 20 different nations...
...Herald either cannot or will not understand the case as it is. I don't see that it matters at all whether it does or not. But the opposition to the settlement within the University is another matter. The cry of undergraduates for harsher punishment for an undergraduate; the echo in the Bulletin of "the charge that in Harvard College the rich man is treated better than the poor"; are not a little depressing. "The government of a University," says ex-Dean Briggs, "cannot with safety be entrusted to students; they are harsher than their elders and less just...
...later." The mere fact that as this same writer also states "its membership includes among the graduates a great many solid, sober and responsible citizens," makes the charged criminality of its actions more absurd and allows us to see the whole affair through the eyes of those who understand Harvard, and how the traditions of an organization which had a place in times gone by still influence men of the present day to do things of which they do not perhaps approve. The survival of the "Med. Fac." to the present day is merely an evidence of how tradition lives...