Word: explains
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...philosophy should deliver a carefully prepared lecture to one half of those who had taken his elective, while the other half were rendered incapable of profiting by it from being engaged in the same room in an examination, we fail to see why it is not equally unjust to explain a lesson under the same conditions, unless the explanations are regarded as of trifling importance. And if the instructor does regard them in this light, he would naturally be one of the most determined opponents of voluntary recitations...
...years. The following attempt to state the new theory, and compare it with the old system, and from them suggest a third, is made without any presumption to judge of which is the best, and is only offered in the hope that the upholders of the new system will explain its workings and ends, because the school does not have that confidence of the Bench and Bar in this Commonwealth which it needs and is bound to obtain if possible, nor has it that confidence of the students which is necessary and desirable to its highest usefulness...
...that his real opinion is that all ideas are innate, and exposes the fallacy of believing any to be derived from sensation or reflection. Here, as well as elsewhere in his book, he is in strict harmony with Descartes. In fact, he seems to have written to simplify and explain his great master; and though we find nowhere mention of Descartes, we cannot doubt the admiration and assent implied in every paragraph. He is then a Descartes made easy, - a Robinson Crusoe in words of one syllable. In the simplicity and Saxon character of his phraseology he forcibly reminds...
...feelings in the touching song, "Stop that knocking at the door." After having sung this with the customary stamping on the floor, the door was opened, and in came one of the clerks of the University Bookstore, with a little red book in his hand, which he proceeded to explain was a work just published, on a new and very interesting subject, - Political Economy. He wished to call the attention of the Faculty to it. Professor Yellsons, on account of the vocal qualities implied in his name, was appointed to read a chapter of it merely to kill time, since...
...anything of this kind, and while we think our players are perfectly right in not being willing to alter their rules (which are undoubtedly far superior to those of the other colleges), still we ask whether it would not have been much better to have sent delegates able to explain our method of playing the game and to make a strong plea for it before the convention. Harvard would not necessarily have been bound to enter into the matches if her demands were entirely disregarded, and if our rules are best the other colleges will probably agree to them...