Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...another column we reprint part of an editorial which appeared in the Yale News yesterday. It is evident that Yale men are dissatisfied with the treatment which they have received at the hands of our freshmen. They understand that the matter has not been settled as yet, and are impatient for some final action. It is plain, however, that the Yale challenge was acted upon decisively by Ninety and as far as technicalities are concerned nothing has been done of which Yale can justly complain. Ninety has voted to row the Yale freshmen on the Charles...
...understand that class prayer-meetings are to be started in University...
...class boat this year, it may be said that they are no longer 'Varsity men, and hence do not come under the rule respecting the latter. In the case of '88's coxswain, I do not get the drift of his very lucid argument, nor do I understand to what he refers when he says that the vote was due to a misunderstanding and that it is not yet settled. To what vote does he refer, and why has it not yet been settled? Perhaps he will have the kindness in some future communication to inform one who wants...
Everyone who can afford time would do well to attend the French readings to be given in March and April. To understand modern French literature, it is evidently necessary to know a little of what Frenchmen have written in the past; and the subjects of the six readings are well chosen, both to illustrate the work of pre-eminent masters and to serve as an introduction to a study of French art - surely a fine art - in literature; and not only ought those attend who wish merely to get a sketch of French literature, or an introduction...
...Themes. "At Night-Time" is a somewhat dog gerel rendering of a German poem. Next is an essay on "Count Tolstoi and Modern Realism," in which the writer, after saying that Balzac tried to crush the life out of French prose - Balzac, the one man to me who can understand and describe the emotions of a woman - that the French revolution "overthrew in one vast ruin Church, State and literature," in which latter word seems to be included not only Montesquieu, Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau, who, by the way, led the revolution, but also the German writers, Lessing. Schiller...