Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...brief, general description of the activities which the provisions of the agreement cover, it is sufficient to say that they prohibit definitely, with relation to a candidate, until after the opening of College in his Sophomore year, any such action as (1) Giving him to understand, directly or indirectly, that he is under consideration as a member of a club; (2) asking or advising him, directly or indirectly, to "wait" for a certain club, that is, not to be a candidate for any other club; (3) endeavoring to influence his judgment as to the merits of the different clubs...
...American people an interest in geography, an appreciation of the significance of geographic factors in the control of industrial and commercial life. Every man interested in large business enterprises should be trained in geography; every man who expects to travel in foreign lands or to enter government service should understand the geography in his own country and that of the world...
...educational reconstruction will be that the college graduate of twenty-one or two will come to realize that he is not too old to pursue his studies further (in the law school, for instance, or the graduate school of business, or the technical school,) because he will understand that the longest way around is, in this case, the shortest way home...
...never doubted that some such decision would be reached, though we are at a loss to understand the interpretation of this particular statement. Whether it applies to all men who through their military service have missed academic work or whether it merely applies to those who left within a year of their degrees, we trust that no undue advantage of this privilege will be taken. The University was forced to recognize that many men who had satisfactorily completed the greater part of their college work would never be able to return for the rest. To withhold credit from these...
...League of Nations has, doubtless, suffered more from its friends than from its enemies. Those who are ready with cut and dried schemes of international organization, in which Costa Rica and England are equally represented, or in which the International Army drills constantly at the Hague, understand neither the spirit nor the necessity of the time. The vital thing, at the moment, is to train men, and particularly statesmen, to the realization that conference is a better method than war for the settlement of disputes. International Government is bound to grow slowly and to encounter every degree of hesitation...