Word: understand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...unsatisfactory to Harvard. It may seem to some unfair that we should be deprived of an opportunity to retrieve our loss in '69; but when we consider the circumstances in which Oxford is placed and the difficulties attending all attempts to prolong the boating season in England, we can understand and appreciate her action...
Steps have already been taken in this direction, we understand, and, in anticipation of securing the patent, the authorities have just begun to recognize the official character of the Harvard Glee Club, and to control its movements as a representative body of the University...
...have. Take a seat. I think the way in which you young men criticise your elders is something shameful. I cannot understand how the spirit of reverence is so lacking. Your facts are often wrong. You launch out a tirade against the Faculty when the Corporation is to blame...
...purpose. The general aims of these three societies are the same, and each of them is willing to do anything towards securing lectures on its special subject; by combining they could give us a full course of lectures which would be both varied, interesting, and profitable. One society, we understand, has already taken some steps in this matter, and the other two are disposed to look favorably upon it. If the Faculty hesitate to use their independent powers towards giving us such a course of lectures, they may, at least, be willing to heartily aid the students in their efforts...
INSTRUCTOR (examining geometrical figures on the boara). "I don't understand these constructions." STUDENT. "Very well, I'll see you after recitation and explain them...