Word: comprehendingly
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...conduct of the gentlemen was not a little premature, who assembled a few nights ago to discuss "informally" (so it was understood) the prospects of the scheme. Officers were elected to an association which did not then exist. The audience who had gathered seemed unable to comprehend this, despite the laudable efforts of one or two gentleman who seemed desirous to impress upon them the previousness, if I may use the word, of such proceedings. I suggest that, hereafter, more careful consideration and prudence be displayed in the management of affairs...
...Williams Athenoeum, seemingly ignorant of the fact that Oscar has retired to the obscurity of the "far West," acknowledges its ignorance of the meaning of aestheticism, and gives vent to its feelings on the subject in the following manner : "O, for a brazen throated hundred tongued volubility to comprehend and define this sky scraping aestheticism, this water-logged, wet chicken, Dircaean-swan-ism; this mental somnambulism, that dares everything and is conscious of nothing; this yellow sunflower, frilled shirt, plastered hairism! Shade of John Gilpin! Is this dilute extract of rose water and weak bombast, this white livered sentimentality...
...University College. The London World, in a sketch of his life, has this sentence: "He would sit with a kindly smile for all comers, a playful affectionateness toward his children, and a gentle tolerance even for those rowdy and athletic undergraduates, whom he struggled all his time to comprehend...
...Cicero's Select Orations, and to translate English into Latin correctly. He must be versed in ancient and modern geography; the fundamental rules of arithmetick; vulgar and decimal fractions; proportion, simple and compound; single and double fellowships; alligation, medical and alternate; and algebra to the end of simple equations; comprehend, also, the doctrine of roots and powers, and arithmetical and geometrical progression. . . . . Every person, before admission to any of the classes or schools of the university, must exhibit proper testimonials of his moral character." Commencement, at that time, took place on the last Wednesday of August, and the summer vacation...
Even then I felt doubtful of the truth; even then I suspected myself of being unable to comprehend fully the situation. Might there...