Word: understandable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which for some reason for other is regarded with less interest at Harvard than at almost any other university. The miserable facilities of the Hemenway Gymnasium account in part for this feeling, for they tend to prevent many men from playing basketball; but even so it is hard to understand why there are only 20 candidates for the team out of about 1450 men eligible to play. With such a small squad to begin with, and with a schedule shorter than most of the other teams have, it is no wonder that a majority of the games are lost, some...
...each innovation we are more and more surprised by the fact of no one's having thought of it before. The great success of the Harvard Club of Boston is an example of this, and as the various functions of this organization are brought to our notice we cannot understand why its origin is of such recent date. A practice which has become quite common this year is that of extending to leading undergraduates invitations to speak at dinners of the Harvard Clubs throughout the East. The New Bedford Club was about the first to see the possibilities of this...
Many of the rules laid down for the guidance of the undergraduates seem hard to understand at first, but if they are carefully considered, some good reason for their existence will usually be found. We must confess, however, that we are unable to discover any good foundation for the regulation in regard to advertising college dramatic productions. The managers of these plays are not allowed to advertise in the Boston papers, and can only bring their productions to the notice of the general public by placards which are restricted in size and color. Of course these offerings are primarily...
...best reason for this limitation which occurs to us is the desire to avoid publicity, but when this publicity can be of no possible harm, we are at a loss to understand the attitude towards it. Or possibly the authorities object to having the undergraduates make too much of a business of what should properly be a pastime, by entering into competition with the outside theatres. But a pastime becomes less pleasurable when attended with financial loss, and larger audiences would prevent the occurrence of this unfortunate contingency...
...first spoke of his experiences among the old chiefs of the Sioux tribe and gave little sketches of the effect the great cities had on certain older Indians who visited Chicago, Pittsburg and Washington. They could not understand civilization, but all possessed a certain dignity of manner that charmed all they...