Word: understand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student should get a fund of knowledge for future use; knowledge, that it is almost impossible to obtain except from an instructor. Why then, should time be wasted in asking questions? Surely all the instructors in the university are only too glad to help one who do nat understand, but there are other times and places beside the hours in the lecture room which should be devoted to the welfare of the class in general...
...must be represented, and her delegates must give some final answer in regard to the fulfillment of her engagements. In order to get some idea of our position in reference to the maintenance of inter-collegiate foot-ball, President Eliot was interviewed, and the committee was given distinctly to understand that in his personal opinion there was no possible chance of our playing any inter-collegiate games this year; but he also said that if the game as played this year by the other colleges proved satisfactory, there was every chance of our playing next year; therefore the management deem...
...doubt many of the students, especially members of the entering class wondered by what right the faculty sent orders to various boarding and lodging house keepers in town Monday night forbidding the holding of punches and other convivial parties. As we do not understand that boarding house keepers are obliged to take out a license from the city for so being, it is presumed that the faculty exerted their power through having the right to say in what places students shall lodge, or what is equivalent, shall not lodge. In this way great moral suasion can be used...
...their nine have not been found so prompt in paying their subscriptions. It is a great burden to a class to have debts dragging on from year to year, and the freshmen will assume this burden unless they give what money they promised to give. The amount unpaid, we understand, is amply sufficient to settle all outstanding bills, and the management of the nine has a right to rely upon its payment. Every freshman who has not paid his subscription should make it a point of honor to do so before leaving Cambridge...
...essentially different, and therefore that the talent required in the two cases is also essentially different. At present the Chinese theory is in full possession of the public minds, and it is imagined that a high rank means corresponding abilities and information; and so it does, if we understand abilities and information for examination purposes only...