Word: understands
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...understand that the delegation of undergraduates to go to Northfield to the summer students conference is now being made up in the College, and I should be grateful, if, in the light of my own undergraduate attitude towards Northfield, you would permit me to say a word concerning it. As a student I thought of Northfield as an ultra-pious place, which promoted an abnormally emotional and provincial religious life. I exaggerated the conservatism of its theology and minimized the sincerity and wholesomeness of its spirit. After graduating I declined to go to Northfield as a speaker until last year...
...their own forms of government the most important of the municipal reforms effected in Oregon. They too have the initiative, referendum, and the recall. Each city can control its own license policy and, as they have not been extremists, they make changes for or against prohibition only as they understand what their needs...
...person who does not understand the amount of detail involved in the conduct of twenty or more teams taking part in intercollegiate athletics is astonished to find that the expenses in connection with athletics at Harvard during the year 1909-10 were $127,945, or about $425 a day for ten months of the year. The charge of extravagance naturally follows such an exhibit of figures. Doubtless there is a considerable amount of money spent unnecessarily each year. A steady effort is being made, however, to curtail foolish expenditures and to spend the income of the association where it will...
...MEDICAL SCHOOL LECTURE. "On Surgical Diseases and their Mechanical Nature; what the Layman should understand of their early Symptoms and Importance." Dr. M. H. Richardson. Medical School, Longwood avenue, Boston...
...greatest enjoyment to the players during the entire season as well as during the contests, the tremendous interest of the spectators, all of whom can appreciate the fine points of this game. Forty thousand people attend an American football game. Of these, the students and perhaps half the others understand the science of the sport. What do the rest come for? One who sees a well-played soccer game for the first time can understand and appreciate at once its fine points...