Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...were forced to sit at the end of the field Saturday could fully appreciate the great superiority of the Yale cheering, which must have much encouraged their team. This was partly due, no doubt, to the fact that their cheerers were better massed, but that alone does not explain it, for the volume of the Harvard cheer was greater than that from the opposite stand. The trouble was, I think, that our "Three long Harvards and three times three" is slow, drawling, and unenthusiastic. It typifies everything which Harvard is not, although fairly representing what our enemies think...
...Macvane will repeat, by special request, the lecture which he delivered last week on "England and the Transvaal." Beginning with an account of the past relations of the English and the Dutch colonists in South Africa, Professor Macvane will show the present condition of politics and society there, and explain the causes which have led up to the present war. The lecture will be delivered in the Fogg Art Museum at eight o'clock...
...field of knowledge in any one special branch is large enough to entirely engross the whole study of one man. To conform to this increase, a method of instilling into the student a scientific power of observation in place of text-book knowledge will be introduced. The lectures will explain the laboratory work instead of making the laboratory work instead of making the laboratory work explain the lectures, as heretofore. Instead of running four full courses through the year, the college year will be divided into two halves, running whole courses from September to February, and whole courses from February...
...such records as this which justify athletics, and which explain the honorable position in the college world which is accorded to some athletic leaders. To strain to the utmost every muscle, to tax every mental resource, and to exercise all the manly qualities which are demanded in the athlete, these are surely worth while in themselves independent of victory or defeat. Harvard has had many captains who have done these things, but few who have done them as disinterestedly as Goodrich. His final act of self effacement, however necessary it may have seemed to him and to the coaches...
Professor Bocher will explain the subject, characters, principal situations and the mise-en-scene of the play...