Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...action, I am informed," he said, "is the intense excitement and rivalry which has existed for some time between the two universities, and the sentiment which has been growing for the past few years in relation to the baseball contests between the two institutions. It is not intended, I understand, to cripple Pennsylvania, nor to be a final cessation of athletic contests between the two universities, but simply to be a suspension of athletic interests for a time in the hope that the present high feeling may be moderated...
...writer of the communication published in another column, apparently does not understand the attitude which the CRIMSON has taken towards the proposed freshman debate with Yale. That we have been in large part, if not wholly, responsible for the encouragement which the debate has received, is an unexpected proposition, and one which is in no way justified by the facts. In one point, however, our correspondent is right. We might very properly have condemned the entire idea of a freshman debate as soon as it was suggested. We did not do this, and a challenge was sent to the Yale...
Many people who have heard a great deal about the Harvard case system of studying law but do not know how it originated, will see why so much importance is attached to Professor Langdell's services when they understand that he was the one who introduced the system and under whose direction it has been carried on at Harvard...
...version, he said; it takes the place of the expression, "life eternal." Life is not measured by length of years, or by possessions, but by the spirit of God which is in a man. Real life is life eternal and by this we are not to understand only life lasting forever, but the life of the eternal God. He who truly lives, lives in God and God in him. The "life indeed" is something that cannot be lost. Death is but an end of the visible life, what we might call the picture of life, but the life indeed...
...Testament series, and the birth of Christ, tour hundred years elapsed. These four centuries mark the transition period of the Jewish people from a simple, agricultural community to a powerful commercial people, whose land had been changed and improved under the influence of Roman civilization. If we are to understand the means by which the religion of Christ was spread abroad among the nations of the world, we must know the history of the transition period. This is contained in the books of the Apocrypha, which are, unfortunately, not printed in American bibles...