Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that reason we believe that any talk now about building a new chapel or a new auditorium or a new gymnasium is to be regretted in so far as it will obscure this real and immediate need. As for the graduates, if they could come to understand the vital necessity of decently providing for our new students, they would not hesitate to reject for the present the project of a new chapel or an auditorium and heartily endorse the proposal to build a new quadrangle dormitory...
...western travelers who have hastily passed through Japan proper in a train could not fail to admire the beautiful scenery of its mountains and rivers, but they seem to be few indeed, who are able to understand why and how the Japanese farmers are working so hard "from dark to dark," and doing so on the tops or slopes of the numerous hills and mountains, some as high as several hundred feet above sea level...
Boston's political welter recalls a need often felt and much deplored, but little heeded. It is the lack of intelligent, well-educated men to take an active part in government; the lack even of intelligent voters who understand the practical workings of civil machinery. The University is a valuable training-ground for such men; those concentrating in Government and Economics are well prepared to lay their hands to the reins of office. But the large number specializing in other fields are often left totally unenlightened on such subjects. Good citizenship should be inculcated in every college man; for without...
...proposing, though not officially and publicly, the relative naval power be determined not by the tonnage of battle fleets, which can be definitely measured, but the indefinite and un-measurable test of the necessities of defense. For this reason there has been already injected into the consideration (though, I understand, not into the official discussions) of the Conference the question of Japan's position on the mainland across the Sea of Japan--that is Manchuria and Siberia...
...situation is complicated by what is known as the likin, a system of interprovincial tariffs. It is all far from being simple, though the desire of the Chinese to secure the right to make their own tariff laws as other nations do, is simple enough and easy to understand. All the nations represented here are agreed that China's revenue system should be changed as soon as its complicated problems can be straightened...