Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand that Yale '87 are already playing a very steady game...
...would think that if all this were true our poor "unsatisfied molecule" would be sunk in the depths of despair. But no, there is a grain of consolation, and although we don't exactly understand, the next paragraph evidently contains this consolation. "But the world in general is mediocre-in fact an indifferently clever A. B. is not a rare occurrence. In the case of most people, the boundary line of attainment has an extremely short radius. Tearing intellects do not grow wild, and the dilution of the essence of intelligence may be attributed as the result of dividing...
...great ease. Thus a number of different phases of a campaign or battle could be clearly set before the eyes of the audience. Difficult situations could thus be more readily grasped and a better idea of the lectures carried away when it is over. To see is often to understand, and if this plan can be carried out with no more or even less trouble than the present one we shall hope to see it adopted. If it should turn out more costly or troublesome than we think, we should not expect the society, which has done so much...
...greatest number possible. Since the Historical Society has taken the series in hand, it owes it to the college that every practicable arrangement should be made, by which every person, especially every student, who desires it should be able to attend and enjoy the lectures. We were given to understand at first that the society had been refused the use of Sanders Theatre. When we complained of this we were told that we were laboring under a mistaken impression and that the theatre had been offered free to the society. But the society is said to have refused the theatre...
Besides retaining all the rules of last season against professionalism, the Harvard faculty, we understand, intend to pass a further regulation that games may only be played on the grounds of one of the competing colleges; or else of some other college...