Word: understand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard undergraduates have shown, during the last few weeks, that they have the real welfare of Harvard athletics at heart, and that they understand the best way in which the standard of athletics may be raised. A few weeks ago it was announced that a cup had been offered by Harvard men to be competed for by the different schools belonging to a proposed interscholastic athletic association. One athletic meeting is to be held a year, and the games are to be of the usual nature of the annual intercollegiate contest...
...coming spring and summer. Professor C. Wellman Parks, of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N. Y., has charge of the exhibit, and has sent out circulars to the various organizations of our colleges asking for photographs and anything else that can be sent to represent the college. We understand that many of the smaller colleges are making great efforts to be represented as well as possible, while Harvard is doing little or nothing...
...seemed to be the favorite number in the second part. As in the last concert given here by this quartet, the number of college men present was few. When such splendid opportunities for hearing the highest and purest form of music are presented to us, it is difficult to understand why men do not avail themselves of these privileges. The next concert will be on March 21st...
...Jellinek said that to understand Burke we must take into account the circumstances that surrounded him. He never forgot his native country, and his speeches on Irish questions form the most valuable of his works. Burke was conservative and a utilitarian, always calm and just in his opinions and his actions. He wished to place Ireland on an equal commercial footing with England, and endeavored to show that Ireland's prosperity would be England's prosperity. When he entered on his political career, Ireland was regarded merely as a colony to be governed solely for the advantages of England...
...literature; not to blend futile research into minor matters with the effort to appreciate the poem. This is not necessary. If the student will read the poems of Homer as a literature he will be brought into direct and vivid contact with the poet and will see and understand as by instinct...