Word: understand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sung for amusement alone. They are all serious ones which are sung at their ceremonies, when divine aid is desired or when they are thankful for something. The Indians never have two verses set to one tune. Each song has some particular significance to them and they could not understand two different ideas being sung to the same music...
...valuable possibilities, and the selection of speaker and subject for tonight's address augurs well for their realization. The address ought to be of worth both because the subject is one on which much public attention is rapidly focusing, and because Governor Greenhalge is in a position clearly to understand the question...
...interscholastic league. If the Harvard freshmen hope to make a good showing in the game with the Yale freshmen, how are they going to do it, as things are now? The prime cause of all the trouble is that nobody has been appointed to coach the freshmen regularly. I understand from those competent to know what sort of material there is in the freshman class, that several experienced players have not been given a fair chance this whole spring. With a good coach such a mistake could not happen...
...understand that there are other obstacles besides a lack of funds in the way of a new dining-hall,- that, on general principles, there is a serious opposition in the governing boards against any such undertaking by the University itself. It is said that the business now carried on by the University authorities is immense, and that the addition to this of the complicated management of a new dining-hall would be unwise. It is advocated that private enterprise be allowed to solve the problem of giving food to those students who cannot be accommodated in Memorial, just as private...
...things, I think, are clear: that it is impossible to put our finger upon the exact point of time when the speech of England became what we understand under the name English, and that a language existed as early as three centuries and a half after the Norman conquest which is perfectly comprehensible to us and which differs from our own only in being archaic...