Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard," says the News, "we understand there is no attempt made to run the paper in a remunerative way, but whatever surplus remains at the end of each year is put into a supper." This is good. For the benefit of the News, we would say that this is the first year that this paper has ever come out anywhere near even with its expenses, and that instead of a surplus for a supper, we have hitherto been forced to pay an assessment for our debts. We generally get the supper, but we pay for it ourselves. The News should...
...this important question thought is not a fit man for overseer, and should decline to be a candidate. We do not doubt the good intentions of these undecided gentlemen, but demand that our overseers should be chosen from the men who have kept up with the times and who understand the condition of affairs at this university at present. We think that the selection of overseers at the election in June should be made largely with a view to changing a "scandalous regulation" in this college, and the sentiments of every candidate on this question should be made known. Therefore...
...understand that the subscriptions for the freshman nine are not so forthcoming as they should be. We hope that '87 will see that its team is well supported...
...John C. Ropes' lecture on the Virginia Campaign. Mr. Ropes it will be remembered, lectured two years ago before the Historical Society, on the First Napoleon, and has at other times and in other ways very materially aided the society in the endeavors to make itself useful. We understand, also, that Mr. Ropes was influential in getting up the present course of lectures which has proved so successful and which has given the society a firmer foothold as a college society than it ever before enjoyed. To Mr. Hart, the president of the society, much praise is also...
This may be a lucid statement in connection with this subject, but we confess that we do not understand it. Is it a Yale joke, or is it the "Yale method" of argument? We confess we have not given the subject of betting any prominence in considering this subject, and although we may speak "but of the heart," we are not aware that we have spoken "out of the pocket." So far as it means anything, it seems to mean that we were influenced in our article by some betting interest in the game. Comment is unnecessary. Having mentioned this...