Word: explains
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seem utterly out of place and uncalled for to the majority of the students of the college. That such a document could have been written and signed on the 7th of July is easily understood, as at that time nothing had been said on Harvard's part to completely explain the difficulty. But after Harvard's part has been officially explained, and that, too, to the complete satisfaction of any reasonable man who is not prejudiced by college feeling, it was in very bad taste for any one who carefully read the report of the meeting of the boat club...
...think it incumbent upon the signers to explain their reasons now, as they did not take the trouble to attend the meeting and explain them there. It is ridiculous to suppose that the explanation of the Harvard crew would so easily have satisfied the entire meeting of the club, composed as it was largely of men who had come there fearing that the crew were in the wrong and Columbia in the right, unless that explanation were perfectly clear and reasonable, as it undoubtedly...
...commend the instruction received by the young mind of the writer of the above, as shown in his closing sentence. More of such instruction carefully taken in by our young friend will explain to him the difference in the tone of the remarks in exchanges and outside papers when referring respectively to Harvard and Yale...
...postponement; and lastly, that Columbia distinctly agreed to call the race off under mutual consent, and then, in defiance of all courtesy, appeared on the course and claimed the race. A counter case from Columbia is also in preparation, in which it is to be presumed she will explain some points not now clear in her line of conduct...
...most interested in Harvard athletics had an interview with the "committee on athletics" appointed by the faculty. As the steps taken by the committee in regard to certain matters have a very important bearing upon the athletic interests of the college, I deem it my duty to explain fully to all members of the Athletic Association both what these steps taken by the committee are and their reasons for taking them...