Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...glad that it has been decided to have no formal decision rendered in the Harvard-Yale joint debate. An effort was made, we understand, to make arrangements for the rendering of such a decision, but from several causes it fell through. There would have been little to gain by the giving of a formal decision on the merits of the debate. It would not have settled at all any question regarding the general oratorical and debating abilities of the two colleges, but would have been, on the whole, rather an undignified ending to the debate. It is altogether best that...
...part in fulfilling the objects which the broader interests of the University are continually demanding. The development of the system of classroom and departmental libraries is especially interesting. The best and most fruitful work done at the University is done in these libraries, and it is hard to understand how we ever got along without them. It is perfectly easy to see, however, that they are the natural outgrowth of the method of teaching here. In the teaching of every department, the library has been made the central fact about which everything else revolves. To do good work, to make...
...White and other members of the Committee on the regulation of Athletic Sports will expound to members of the University the constitution of the committee, and explain its powers and objects. This conference is the outcome of a desire on the part of the University at large to understand clearly just what the position held by the committee is. On several occasions men have questioned the acts of the committee because they have not comprehended them or have fathered upon the committee responsibility for some act which it did not and could not do. The undergraduates generally, however, appreciate...
...that are taken, means that hundreds of men are robbed of privileges which belong to them. It is barely possible that some one may have taken these books without realizing the real gravity of the offense; such a man would, of course, return them immediately upon being made to understand what inconvenience his selfishness causes. If the books are not returned immediately it will mean that the offender took the books with the full understanding of the character...
...calendar today the notice appears that today is the last day for receiving applications for aid from the Loan Fund. For the benefit of those men who may not entirely understand the mode of assignment the following extract from the catalogue will be of interest...