Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cook, Yale's boating authority, arrived to-day, and will remain with the 'varsity crew until the New London races are over. In the correspondence that preceded his arrival in this country, Chainey, the English coach, was made to thoroughly understand that he was not employed to give instructions in the British style of rowing. His service would be rather to consolidate this with the American system, taking from each the good that was in them and producing something better than either. He was, moreover, to rig the boat and adapt it to the stroke determined upon, and in other...
...cannot understand how any man of average intelligence can believe that a committee of such men as the students would elect could be made to do "police duty," even if the faculty so desired. And he must have a poor opinion indeed of human nature in general and of the faculty of Harvard College in particular, who can believe that they desire such a thing...
...main idea in having lectures in contemporaneous history should be not so much to make men acquainted with the events which are happening before their eyes. as to enable them to read newspapers and periodicals with understanding. It is comparatively easy to have a fair knowledge of what is happening in the world, but it is often quite difficult to know the significance of those events, or to understand the great questions which agitate the public mind. It would therefore be valuable to all if some instructors would give a few lectures on the most important events and questions which...
...worthy of a huge bonfire." Yet we are undergraduates but once, and let us celebrate while we may. Surely the freshmen on Wednesday night showed that through all their performance there was still an undercurrent of order which prevented any action that was not ruled by reason. We understand that the owners of whatever property was put on the fire, are to be reimbursed by the class. Surely then let the college render the verdict of justifiable bonfire...
...When we think that other colleges of our size are training a dozen or twenty men, we ought to feel rather "tired." In fact, the reputation we have so calmly earned of caring little or nothing for field athletics, is, to say the least, disgraceful. The plan, as we understand it, is follows: - all those desirous of competing will please hand their names to the directors as soon as possible, together with the events they intend to enter, that an open eye may be kept on them and some system of training prepared. It is folly for us to expect...