Word: understand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...must understand," rejoined her companion, "that many strange beings find their way into this great University. These are all digs, - regular grinds, you know, - a miserable...
...understand at first; she looked at her feet : her boots were who shall say how high, and no tell-tale color showed. Then she looked up at me, "But -" And then it flashed over her. Her color, deep already, rose to her forehead. She did not speak, but rose and sailed out of the room...
...understand that at last the boating-flags are to have a place in the Library. While adhering to the opinion that Memorial Hall is the right place for them, we are glad that they are to be permanently housed in a public place. So important do we deem these flags that we view with serious apprehension the recent distribution of a part of them among members of the crew. In the first place, the crew have no right to ornament their private rooms with what has become college property; and in the second place, the danger that the flags...
...Dartmouth has a very clever editorial on the assumption of the cap and gown by the Freshmen of its College. "Ridentem dicere verum" is a weapon of which the Dartmouth editors understand...
...College has in the past sent forth more eminent literary men than any other; but they - many of them, at least - say they owe not very much to the College: most of their culture was attained after leaving here. In those good old times every man, as I understand it, was forced to study the same subjects. Now a man can, if he have any particular bent, turn his attention to one line of study. The advantage is inestimable...