Word: understand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Jersey' has become obsolete. To be sure this title is on official documents, is on the seal, and is the proper name of the institution. But it means little today. A great many people who are deeply interested in the welfare of Princeton would have to think twice to understand a reference to the 'College of New Jersey.' So far as we are aware the state gives the college no material help and it is a question whether any lustre is added to our fame by having the name of a state linked to the title. Certainly it suggests contraction...
...hurriedly in his argument as to leave his audience behind. But when followed closely he was seen to have the matter well in hand. Mr. Clarke' showed that the delegation of power to the representatives of the national associations introduced a third party who could not freely understand either side of the dispute. These were the organizations to be ignored. The claim of the affirmative speakers that such organizations were necessary before there could be any arbitration did not rest on facts. Inquiry into the character of the associations proved that they lack conservatism and discreet leadership, as seen...
...game. Harvard had some good tricks, while Yale quite frequently worked the mass guard and tackle plays. The Harvard freshmen showed the effect of working together as a team, without depending on star individual, plays while the Yale men, many of them 'varsity material, did not seem to understand each other and did considerable fumbling...
...Perry Trafford to join the coaching force, but that they have all refused on the ground of press of business. Dr. Brooks and the other graduate advisers have been so earnest in their devotion to the team that we feel it is but right that the undergraduate body understand that there has not been any attempt to "freeze out" any Harvard football men from connection with the eleven...
...different ways to get to Springfield have been made to us by men who are much confused in their own minds as to just what each of the different railroads offers in the way of inducements, that we consider it proper to make a simple statement of what we understand as the claims of the different companies...