Word: understand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...past nine o'clock in the evening instead of closing at eight as at present is an excellent one. It is strange that the needs of so large a postal district as that of Old Cambridge have not brought about this change before. The present hour for closing, we understand, was fixed when the mail for the west left at eight o'clock. Now, however, the mail does not leave Cambridge until half-past nine and as the clerks are now in the office beyond that time there seems to be no good reason why the office should...
...lack of suitable rowing machines very seriously impedes the progress of the indoor training of the class crews. This is a matter which the public spirit of each class should not allow to remain as it is at present. We understand that of the $240 necessary to provide good machines like those used by the University crew, the management of the latter will contribute $100 if the class crew managers will raise the rest. The small amount required should easily be raised at once by the three upper classes...
...threaten war merely in defence of Venezuela; but we are told that we must rally to the defence of the "Monroe! Doctrine." This doctrine is now more than seventy years old, and it is its spirit rather than its letter with which we are concerned now. As I understand it, I hold it in the highest respect; but I frankly confess that, viewing the utterances of 1823 in the light of 1896, I can see nothing in them which makes them in any respect applicable to the present case. Nothing is plainer in President Monroe's famous message...
...moment avoid trouble by the simple process of tame submission to wrong. If this is done it will surely invite a repetition of the wrong; and in the end the American people are certain to rent this. Make no mistake. When our people as a whole finally understand the question they will insist on a course of conduct which will uphold the honor of the American flag; and we can in no way more effectively invite ultimate war than by deceiving foreign powers into taking a position which will make us certain to clash with them once our people have...
...understand," writes The Academy, "That Mr. George Saintsbury is withdrawing from all literary work not closely connected with the subjects of the chair at Edinburgh to which he has been appointed. He will, however, still contribute the prefaces to Macmillan and Co.'s edition of "Balzac," which were entirely written before the appointment...