Word: explains
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...justification before the public than this. If people can only recognize, as the Secretary has tried to make them do, what the true nature of Harvard is, the University can then speak for itself. Mr. Bolles has set an admirable example to all of us. The more we can explain to outsiders the true nature and simple practical workings of the University, the more genuine service we shall be doing for our Alma Mater...
...classes; first, those that remain with us all the time; second, those that come to us from the south in summer; third, those that come from the north in autumn; fourth, those that pass through in the migrations; and fifth the stragglers. Naturalists have never been able satisfactorily to explain the regular migrations of birds. It does not seem probable that they are influenced by cold as they are so well protected by their thick covering of feathers and fat, and by a very rapid circulation. Then many of the most delicate birds spend the winter in the north...
...physical development of the country. An intelligent and lively class is naturally full of questions and to answer these the teacher must understand the causes of every change and peculiarity on the country's surface. Better to illustrate this point, Professor Davis took the case of waterfalls and explained, with stereopticon views, the different kinds of waterfalls classified according to a physical basis. The first case is where a stream comes to a cliff in its natural course and plunges over; second, where a stream falls over a bluff and gradually cuts its way through a layer of earth...
...view of the recent opening of Congress, Professor Hart took the opportunity last evening to explain how the thing was done. The organizing of the Senate, he said, took this year one hour and three minutes, - nearly twice as long as usual. It will probably take the House to organize between one and three months. In beginning a new session, the clerk of the previous Congress opens the business, and the House proceeds to the election of a speaker. This election, however, is merely a form, for the speaker has long since ceased to be chosen by the House...
...Sever 11 this evening Professor J. W. White and other members of the Committee on the regulation of Athletic Sports will expound to members of the University the constitution of the committee, and explain its powers and objects. This conference is the outcome of a desire on the part of the University at large to understand clearly just what the position held by the committee is. On several occasions men have questioned the acts of the committee because they have not comprehended them or have fathered upon the committee responsibility for some act which it did not and could...