Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this meeting; for unless sufficient enthusiasm is manifested by the students, it will be impossible to carry out the proposed plan. As a pleasant and profitable manner of studying subjects in French literature and in French history, and of acquiring an ability to converse in French and to readily understand the language when spoken, the proposed society would be invaluable. As we understand it, the society will not confine it self to the consideration of literary topics, but various episodes in the history of France, and the live questions of the day in French politics will also receive attention...
...status among the students, the effectiveness of the committee will be proportionately diminished. It seems that the proper remedy would be either to give the committee more power, which seems by far the most advisable solution, or to dispense with its services altogether as to make the students thoroughly understand that the committee is nothing more than a debating society where undergraduate opinion may be expressed without reason or responsibility, for if one's schemes are to have no effect, the wildest kind of phantasies will be indulged in by conservative members even. The test of practical application would make...
...same in any other matter where competition takes a part, whether we confine ourselves to athletics or not. And our game of foot-ball is not an exception. The time is so short for actual training; the matches so few in the year, that we are now coming to understand where the real power of the game lies. It is not the team which has the heaviest men, makes the most brilliant plays, and has the fastest runners, that is to win in the coming contest, but that eleven which employs every player to make each run, and where...
...already received one of these photographs, sent by an old friend at New Haven, and had studied it carefully. It was taken when the leading men were about 10 yards from the tape, and we are unable to understand what their relative positions at this point in the race has to do with the order in which they crossed the finish line. But if this picture had been taken at the instant the winner breasted the tape, it would have been impossible to learn from it who had won. The instrument stood on the bank at the extreme outside edge...
...base-ball championship is to remain at Harvard, it is necessary for every student who is able to be present at the game at New Haven next Saturday. This should not be an idle warning, but every man ought to understand that he owes a duty to his college in this matter. Indifference, or more plainly speaking, laziness, should not control our actions...