Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place I do not understand why men cannot grind up just before hour examinations as they do before mid-year examinations, and consequently gain almost as little from their work in one case as in the other. It is true the constant feeling of an impending examination would probably cause some men to do better work than they do under the present system. Still the real evil is but slightly mitigated...
...since a large surplus is divided among them at the close of every year. That is an inducement to work for the paper, which lack of graduate financial support prevents our having here. There are fifty competitors for the Yale News where the CRIMSON has ten. The Advocate should understand this, since she herself has wept over and bemoaned the indifferent spirit among Harvard...
...understand that Mr. F. L. Dunne, the prominent Boston tailor, who has for years past catered so successfully to the wants of Harvard men, is to send an agent West in the spring for the purpose of advancing his trade interests in that section of the country. Mr. Dunne has always had uniform success with his patrons and has established a reputation among college men which places his firm in the front rank of the merchant tailors who supply the demand made by students of the country for exclusive and novel goods...
...candidates for the freshman nine have been very negligent in their work in the gymnasium. We understand that the number which makes daily appearance is less than that requisite for a full base-ball team. Harvard College does not keep freshmen at their work because they obtain liberty for the first time in their lives during their first winter here, and fail to understand the right use of it. But now it is about time that the follies of the first term should be cast aside and some work accomplished. The class of '90 made an unenviable reputation in base...
...prospect is bright for a very large increase of our educational facilities, and that, too, in behalf of a sex which has not always been favored with its full share. The city, as such, can do little legally, to aid any enterprise of this kind, however meritorious, but I understand the park's commission to be of the opinion that, if there is a likelihood of the establishment of a richly endowed college for women in close proximity to Clark University, Worcester should at least manifest its appreciative sense of such munificence by the ample provision of open grounds...