Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...western states. He admits that "the prejudices and desires of the most impartial observer must necessarily color his deductions;" but he says, "I venture to believe, however, that the forward movement has gone far enough to enable us to appreciate the spirit of it, if not to comprehend the general direction of its progress." This spirit he conceives to be the change coming about by natural growth and by logical processes of induction...
...close of the war a great amount of army woolens was foreed upon the market, and a natural depression in the woolen trade followed. Business men could not suddenly comprehend the cause of the situation. They sought help from the government, and a tariff more stringent than any of its predecessors-the tariff of 1868, was enacted. That tariff is now twenty-two years old, and as a wool dealer, Mr. Garrison did not hesitate to affirm that it is a disappointment...
...German Literature from the middle ages down to the present century, dwelling most emphatically on the most striking features of this development. By way of pointing out the relation of the literary life of the people to their society and politics it is intended that the lectures shall comprehend the development of the nation as a whole. The course although intended mainly for freshmen, is designed as a general introduction to the study of German Literature for any student who may be interested in the language. We therefore commend it to the attention of the students. The lectures will...
...management has just received a most satisfactory letter from Manager Flint of the Harvard '91 base ball team, in regard to the misunderstandings that have so unfortunately occurred about the arrangement of a game. From this letter we are fully able to comprehend the reason for the inability of the team to appear, and we feel it a duty to apologize to the '91 management for the charges made against them in our last issue, and we hope that a game may be arranged with this team after all. However, we have no reason to retreat from our stand...
...been accomplished this fall, we can see how true at times, is that saying, "Things must grow worse before they can be better." In the spring of 1886 affairs were pretty bad, but it needed the athletic defeats of that season and of last year to enable us to comprehend the complete degeneracy of the artificial system which was ruling us. Last June was the culmination of the bad effects of that system. At the opening of college this fall there was latent a real determination to alone for our past disgrace. This feeling has now become a frank, open...