Word: understand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ended by the vote which we announced yesterday. In next year's Index will be found the list of some eighty or a hundred men, headed, not "The Christian Brethren," but "The Harvard Young Men's Christian Association." The change in name and in constitution has been made, we understand, after much consideration and debate. It is not for us to dispute the desirability of the change, for this was clearly enough proven by the fact of the almost unanimous vote cast in favor. Harvard has only followed the examples set by Amherst, Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, and indeed by almost...
...better advantage. When we consider the need of a law school library, the need of a separate library for the divinity school becomes evident. Books upon special topics are always more easily consulted when arranged with special adaptation to special work. And as we are given to understand that special care will be taken in cataloguing the new library, we wish the enterprise every success...
...highly successful playwright. He is the author of "The Banker's Daughter," "Young Mrs. Winthrop," and "One of Our Girls," all of which Harvard students have seen acted with pronounced success. Plays of Mr. Howard are at present on the boards at London, Paris, and New York. We understand that Mr. Howard will give some insight into his method of writing a play. We will announce the next lecture, which it is said will be delivered by Mr. Franklin H. Sargent, Director of the New York School of Acting. We congratulate the Shakspere Club on the success of their exertions...
...refined tastes. Anything that he will be led to say cannot fail to interest those who listen to him. College students are slowly arriving at an appreciation of the fine arts and the benefit to be derived from a study of them, and can understand the weight which men of culture give the subject. We trust that Mr. Herkomer will be greeted with a large and enthusiastic audience, and we venture to prophesy that those who attend his lecture will be amply repaid for their expenditure of time...
...rest of the nervous system? 7. Discuss the two propositions: (a) "Had the ancients been serious in their belief, we should not have had their Gods exhibited in the manner we find them represented in the poets;" (b) "To deal with Greek religion honestly you must at once understand that this literal was in the mind of the general people as deeply rooted as ours in the legends of our own sacred book." 8. Why do the fine arts afford the best measure of civilization? 9. How far is technical skill a test of the excellence of a work...