Word: understand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...understand this as an appeal for more ministers - not that; I simply want to say that when you leave college and get to work in your calling and settle in your home, there will be various other interests that will claim you - clubs, professional and social, and political duties; but there will be one institution in the town that has somehow outlived all others, an institution that has sustained the ideal of the Christian family, that encourages education, inspires character, upholds the brotherhood of man, and has the charm of charity - the Christian church. It needs you - your personal interest...
...challenge and we have also mailed to them a formal challenge. We, that is, Oxford and Cambridge, would be glad to take a team to America next September, to compete with Yale and Harvard, and the decision whether this match shall take place, rests with them alone. We understand that Yale and Harvard both would have preferred to have this meeting next July, but unfortunately we cannot arrange for this. Therefore it only remains to be seen whether Yale and Harvard, in their sportsmanlike desire to bring about a contest of this character, will be willing to arrange...
Seniors must understand that the time required for gelatine and half-tone work, printing, presswork, and binding, is about four weeks, after all the subjects are handed in. Hence it will be impossible to publish the book before Class Day. The editor, however, is willing to allow this delay in order to secure an accurate and complete album...
Seniors must understand that the time required for gelatine and half-tone work, printing, presswork, and binding, is about four weeks, after all the subjects are handed in. Hence it will be impossible to publish the book before Class Day. The editor, however, is willing to allow this delay in order to secure an accurate and complete album...
...difficult to understand the position which Yale has taken with regard to the football game next fall, or rather to understand her motive in taking it. She can never have expected that Harvard would conform to the preposterous conditions which she proposes, and it seems extremely ill-advised just now to complicate the already difficult football problem. If it were Yale's deliberate intention to prevent a game next year, she could scarcely have gone about it in a surer way. Harvard men will be in perfect accord with the spirit of the letter in which their athletic committee...