Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball, has astounded the whole college. Although at first it was hard to believe that any such announcement could be true, later developments have shown that the committee are thoroughly in earnest. while they state that they are backed by the faculty and corporation. While we can well understand what they complain of in foot-ball as brutal and demoralizing, and respect the good motives with which we are bound to credit them, and while we would ourselves gladly hail any reform of the objectionable features of the game as at present played, we can scarcely find words...
...records show that a man has been absent from too many of his recitations, the faculty have the power to demand better attendance of him at the time; and why they do not do this, but wait until many months have passed, is a matter hard to understand. If their aim is to exact a more faithful attendance, surely it is easy to notify a man of the fact before he has completed the year in what is deemed an objectionable manner. Visting the sins of last year on the good intentions of this by a warning is obviously...
...calling these 100 names, is six minutes. Now when there are eighty men present, there is a complete loss of 8 hours time to the section as a whole, besides the loss of patience. Why are not monitors appointed? The lists must have been completed long ago. I understand also, that there is one course, in which there are 140 men, and eleven minutes are used by the watch. This would make a grand total of 25 hours lost...
...Columbia A. H. fall games. Derickson won the 220 in 23 4-5 sec, Rickhart '84 put the shot 35 ft. Rushmore threw the hammer 92 ft. 6 in This throw beats the record badly if the hammer was of regulation size but we understand it only weighed 12 pounds...
...understand that the college expects soon to make an examination of the boat house with the idea of finding the cause of the recent accident. Of course such an examination is necessary and will give us much information as to the affair. But the investigation, to be entirely satisfactory, should be conducted by persons who are entirely disinterested, as any investigation by persons connected with the college will be more or less liable to the suspicion of prejudice. The boat house was under the management of the college and of course the college will be interested in making a report...