Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this spring a race next June is not likely to occur. The boat club, we are informed, has not many thousand dollars in its treasury, in fact, is barely free from debt and that is all. Therefore to buy boats is all out of the question. Of course Harvard understands how much benefit she receives from training received at Exeter in the different branches of athletics. A majority of the Exeter graduates enter Harvard, thus whatever proficiency is acquired while at Exeter is indirectly a benefit to Harvard. With this fact in view we would call the attention...
...Yale papers seem entirely to fail to understand our position in regard to the race question. Last year, after we had sent our challenge, they replied with a conditional acceptance, which caused much argument and some ill feeling. The condition named by them was that the race should be rowed upon a certain date. Moreover, owing to the fact that all the conditions for the race were not agreed upon until the last moment, our crew was obliged to yield a point at the very start, and consequently had to row the race with the moral disadvantage of having...
...papers ambiguities and difficulties which we did not perceive while the professor was present, and it would be extremely appropriate to appoint a scientific graduate, for instance, to an examination in natural science, and so on for the other subjects; so that the proctor would be able to understand and to decide in case of ambiguities. There is one other reason, too, which a proctor has suggested to me, and that is, that if this plan is adopted, the proctor can amuse himself by reading over the paper and finding out how much he has forgotten...
...THEN UPON THAT.Pray do not understand that we advocate the sending of a crew to such a regatta. - [Crimson, January...
...dear Herald, no, we do not think the possibility that a smaller college "may accidentally have four men who can outrow a Harvard four" can give to our adversaries in an intercollegiate regatta "an undue advantage." Pray do not understand that we advocate the sending of a crew to such a regatta - oh, no; but it sounds ill, you see, to speak as though Harvard desires to enter no contest where her large numbers are not sure of giving her security against defeat. If our real rowing ability is on a par with that of the other colleges, our large...