Word: understand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand that the Pierian, Glee and Banjo clubs will give a concert in Sanders Theatre on the 20th of this month. This concert. as preliminary to the ones which will be given in the West during the holidays by the Glee and Banjo clubs, affords an excellent opportunity for every one to judge for himself the merits of a representative Harvard organization, and to compare it with similar ones of past years. A quantity of new songs and new airs have been introduced into repertoire of the Glee Club, and its members have practiced them together faitbfully this fall...
...convention met this fall to arrange the schedule of games, nothing was said before it of the probability that the Harvard faculty would forbid the New York game. But the Harvard manager spoke to the captain of the Yale eleven on the subject and was plainly given to understand that such mention of the possible difficulty was sufficient, and that if any difficulty should arise effort would be made to settle it agreeably to both parties. Now, however, the Yale captain declares that the question was one for the convention to settle and should have been brought up before...
...board of overseers at their last meeting requested the committee on government to "consider and report promplly on the advisability of making attendance upon recitations and lectures compulsory." This action shows plainly that either the overseers fail to understand the way in which attendance at recitations is regulated by the present system, or else labor under the delusion that in such a rule as they propose lies the only way of making students appear regularly at recitations. In the first place, at the present time the instructor is the judge as to whether or not a student comes to recitations...
...freshman class at the Annex is talking about getting up a four-oared crew on the Charles. We understand that the crew does not propose to race...
...received proper attention, a fact which can be accounted for only by surmising that the authorities have considered that these rooms either are not exposed to the dangers of a great fire, or that the almost inaccessible iron fire escapes are a sufficient protection. It is impossible to understand why the men living in Holyoke House rooms situated three and four stories above the gound should be left only half protected against fire, while men living in other college buildings have efficient means provided them in saving themselves in case of an emergency...