Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...requires little acquaintance with the "inside" in football to comprehend that this afternoon's game will prove a crucial one for the University eleven. Two teams, likely to figure in championship records, come to their annual game with clean scores. They meet in a 60-minute gridiron battle. It is safe to say that one will drop from the list of highest football honors...
...many, such a resume of self-evident facts is superfluous, but the CRIMSON feels that there are some among us who do not realize the significance of the administrative actions of the past two years; nor, more important still, do they comprehend what a successful consummation of such a policy will mean to Harvard...
...audience sits hushed during the first act, trying to get into the situation. An understanding of the character of the "Faith Healer" is difficult to many and the failure to comprehend and unquestioningly accept the fundamental thesis will make a full appreciation of the play impossible. The point, the accumulative effect of the play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand...