Word: explains
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...explicative remarks may be necessary for a full understanding of the subject, and offer one the best possible opportunity to renew his acquaintance with some authors, perhaps neglected of late, or to make fresh acquaintances in new fields. It would probably be difficult to select men better qualified to explain their separate subjects than those mentioned above, and one has only to go once and he will continue to go, if he has any real love for literature. If not, perhaps it were better he were not here. It is a common plea that it is impossible to spend...
...said I, "I think I do, but I don't understand pools very well any way, I wish you 'd explain to me the way you do it; because I don't like to ask anybody I don't know, for fear they 'll laugh...
...health. But we caution such against the examinations. They have them once a month! The annual examination takes place at the end of the College year, and is conducted before "a disinterested committee of gentlemen of education from various districts of the State." The catalogue does not explain itself, but we suppose they are proctors...
...already the precedent of free lectures by her professors, and she has a theatre peculiarly adapted for such purposes. The establishment of a course of fortnightly or monthly lectures on questions of the day by men who devote their lives to the subjects they would be called upon to explain would satisfy an imperative need of our education, and enable Harvard to send forth that constant supply of educated practical men which the country has a right to expect of her, - a right thus far too little regarded...
HAVING excommunicated the wine-sauce, billiards, and boating of Princeton, the religious papers will have a fresh source of anxiety in the Dartmouth's recent announcement that "a new stock of cards has been put into the Library." To save the valuable time of these astute periodicals, we explain that the aforementioned cards are simply and solely for cataloguing purposes. How hard up for news the editors of the Dartmouth were is shown by the following brevity...