Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...later years, with the development of the elective system, by which each man has fitted his studies to his needs, the University has come nearer to it. To one who knows Harvard there is something almost ludicrous, were it not for the sorrowful thought that the University is so misunderstood, in the cry of Harvard indifference. Because schoolboy ideals and codes are fast disappearing, because men will not be driven in a body, because a man thinks that above all he should seek to make the best use of those powers which God has given him, Harvard is indifferent...
...following rules have been adopted to govern the conduct of the whist tournament in regard to points likely to be misunderstood...
...following rules have been adopted to govern the Duplicate Whist Tournament as to points which are liable to be misunderstood...
Several members have evidently misunderstood when the tickets were given out. Accordingly there will be another distribution of tickets to members from 9 to 11 today at 19 Hollis...
...speaking thus, we hope to be in no way misunderstood. Such a method is not advocated for permanent adoption. our position is this: that, under present circumstances, fair treatment of all the members of the student body calls for such arrangements as will accommodate a large number at Memorial during the coming year, and as will make the accommodations not glaringly unequal; but that the present necessity overcome by the prompt action of the corporation, an immediate return should be made to club tables, unalloyed, throughout the hall. If emphasis was to be laid on either of these opinions...