Word: understand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clock under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. Mr. Henry Villard, of New York, will speak in German on "Das Deutschland von Heute." Mr. Villard is a fine German scholar, has traveled considerably in Germany, and has been in close relations with Prince Bismark, so that those who understand German, by attending the lecture tonight, will undoubtedly learn much that is of interest in regard to the present political outlook of Germany...
...rather hard to understand why, from a class of over three hundred, only ten men have presented themselves as candidates for the tug-of-war team. It may be that the men do not realize how much interest is taken in the tug-of-war contests at the winter meetings that in these contests class feeling finds expression as at no other time, except at the class races in May. Rope and anchor work are not hard to learn, and it only requires practice to make any ordinarily strong man serviceable on a tug-of-war team. If Ninety...
...Harvard's athletic methods, in the Columbia Spectator. It is in very bad taste, to say the least, for a paper of the standing which the Spectator has always held hitherto, to ridicule the defeats of another college, and to make the spiteful accusations that it does. We cannot understand the spirit that has prompted the Spectator in these attacks upon other colleges, and are sure it is not that of the better element of Columbia. If the Spectator wishes to command any respect or retain any friends let it abandon sensational methods and this would-be facetious style...
...take active steps in the matter, but the entire success of the plan depends upon the support the CRIMSON receives from the college. We there-fore ask everyone to whom a petition is sent to favor us with an immediate reply, trusting that by this means the corporation may understand the true sentiment of the college, and hesitate no longer in lighting the library...
...understand that Mr. F. L. Dunne, the prominent Boston tailor is now building up a large business through the principal cities of the west. Mr. Dunne has had uniform success with his patrons here at Harvard and has established a reputation which places his firm in the front rank of the merchant tailors who supply the demand for exclusive and novel goods...