Word: understand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that it should be decided at once. We have faith enough in the members of the faculty to know that they are unwilling to decide such a momentous question without due deliberation, but we cannot see why the faculty should wait till the Overseers make their report. As we understand it, the petition was presented to the faculty, and the decision rests with them alone; plenty of time has been given for mature deliberation and that decision has not been reached. The petition was signed by men whose opinions should have weight with the faculty. The question at issue...
...short resume of the majority and minority reports of the Committee from the Board of Overseers on the condition and conduct of athletics at Harvard. The report of the majority is open to criticism. Many of the facts therein detailed are undoubtedly true, but it is difficult to understand how a fair-minded body of men could have clamly and deliberately drawn such an exaggerated conclusion as the recommendation of the entire abolishion of intercollegiate contests. This conclusion is not justified by the premises, as any candid observer of both sides of the question must allow. The report says...
...healthy confidence in themselves and a feeling of reliance on each other more than to win their first game, and this we sincerely hope will be done. Brilliant individual playing cannot hold out in the long run against steady team work, and it is to make every man understand thoroughly what team play means that games have been arranged. Every effort should be made to start out with a clear record of victories, in order that the result of the final game may be equally gratifying, and that '91 may feel proud of her achievements...
...understand it, the views of the faculty upon the subject are these: they object to our playing with professionals, as is well known, on the ground that they fear "contamination" and a "degradation of college spirit of honor and fair play." It is also well known that it is the desire of many of the faculty that intercollegiate sports should be narrowed down to contests between Harvard and Yale. This is the opinion of the conservative element. Having reduced the contests to Harvard and Yale, the faculty feel that they can bring sufficient pressure to bear upon the Yale faculty...
...second reading from the Hebrew prophets was given last evening in Sever 11 by Professor Lyon upon the Book of Isaiah. It is impossible to understand the prophets without a knowledge of the moral and political conditions of the time. Besides the internal evidence of the Bible, much information is given us by the recent Assyrian and Babylonian discoveries. Isaiah lived in that period of the Assyrian invasion of Palestine, and was a contemporary of four Assyrian kings. He lived at the court of Jerusalem during most of his life, filling the positions of court preacher, physician and counsellor. Isaiah...