Word: understand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understand," said No. 2, "that the Advocate is a much more literary periodical. The poetry published in its columns has been thought worthy of a reprint in book-form. That is the kind of paper I shall subscribe...
...stupid of you not to understand...
...Advocate says that I failed to understand its editorial because my intelligence has "little in common with our [its] own." The compliment is obvious, and is the more pleasing because evidently unintended. My mistake was a natural one, for I supposed that an editorial criticism, however severe, upon a popular instructor would hardly be given a form more direct than that of a "suggestion," and would be expressed in civil terms; and I also supposed that severity in any editorial was not considered identical with ungentlemanly insinuations and abuse. Since I have been shown the error of my second supposition...
...college world, has been proved conclusively a failure. It is desirable, however, that the crews of American colleges should meet occasionally and measure blades, and for this purpose we see no more feasible plan than that proposed by the National Association. According to this plan, as we understand it, the three challenge cups will be retained by the respective winners of the three different kinds of races until the next regatta, when they will be put up again. All nonsensical talk about "championships" will be out of place, as the victorious eight-oared crew will hold...
...wish our readers distinctly and once for all to understand that, as far as the responsibility goes, there is no such thing as the author of an editorial in the Crimson. The opinions expressed are always the result of deliberation by the whole board of editors, and no one of them bears or can bear more than a tenth part of the responsibility. An editorial on any important subject is invariably read beforehand at the editors' meeting, and there criticised and altered. It is so much the custom among our readers to regard the editorials as anonymous expressions of individual...