Word: aright
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...difficult to see the reason which has prompted the closing during the evening of the department libraries in Sever. If we understand aright it is one of the duties of a college to offer to its students every advantage to study within its power. This duty, however, is in this one instance omitted. Undoubtedly there are comparatively few men who would make use of the reference library privilege if it were granted, and yet that is no sufficient reason for withholding it. There are many times in the aggregate when students are considerably benefited by having access to the department...
...Unicersity has taken the trouble to write to the editors of several of the leading newspapers, asking them for their opinions as to the chances of success of college graduates. The following reply is from Mr. George Jones, of the New York Times, and will serve to set aright many erroneous ideas on the subject...
...good one, and the adoption of it would be a boon to such of us as live in other cities than Boston. Those who live here all the year round can be at home on Easter Day. But it is not so with the others. If we remember aright, when the suggestion to lengthen the Christmas recess was brought up last year, the faculty replied that the power lay not in their hands, but in those of the overseers. Our correspondent has done well in agitating the matter thus early; for there will be plenty of time for the faculty...
...last-if we have read the while aright...
...proves nothing concerning the base-ball men. He simply denies the charge, declaring that documents were brought to Boston to disprove it. As to the foot-ball matter, if there was no game arranged, it seems odd that the Harvard foot-ball men should not have set the matter aright before this, knowing, as they must, that such was the case...