Word: understand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...standing before the race or final game, or to substitute another in his place at the outset. In view of his lazy attitude as compared with that of the others on the team, it would seem at least just to drop him for good and to let him understand that he has shirked his duty just as much as the man who has broken training...
...country must more generally undertake or the country will drift into dangers which may lead to wreck. Among the things you will discover is the tremendous force of disinterested service; and the irresistible power of aroused public opinion for the accomplishment of every fort of good work. You will understand what Washington meant when he looked to that opinion, properly enlightened, to carry this nation forward to its highest destiny...
...with her large field for selection, larger than any other college has, should not get together a winning team more often than has been the case of late, and it is hard for many of the graduates who were winners on the old Mott Haven Team for years to understand why their clean line of victories is not at least approximated in recent years...
...discussions of this question. They did join with Yale in asking that the debates be limited to undergraduates. After saying that reports of faculty coaching had been exaggerated he says: "We fully explained these exaggerated accounts to the Harvard delegates last spring, apparently to their satisfaction." I can not understand what made him think that we were satisfied when the conference closed with a complete disagreement between Harvard and Princeton on the one side and Yale on the other. We were glad to hear that these reports had been exaggerated and of course we believed their statements in regard...
...During the present winter, however, I have never found anybody in them, though I have used them almost daily; and it does not appear that that they have ever been used to any extent, except perhaps in the spring. Even those men who do use them apparently do not understand the game. The so called "pepper boxes" which add so much to the interest and excitement of the sport have recently been torn away, so that as the courts stand they are merely bad hadball courts. Even at this, however, there is no reason why they should stand idle during...