Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...night promises to be one of the most interesting held for some time. The disputants have long been well known as speakers of pronounced ability and will undoubtedly treat the subject under discussion in a manner which cannot fail to interest all who may attend the meeting. We understand that additional interest is lent to the debate from the fact that three of the speakers are ex-presidents of the Union while the fourth now holds that office. We fear that too little attention is given to public debate while in college by those who propose to pursue a public...
...scholarship. The present writer does not hesitate to pronounce the translation of the Georgias in the present volume to be fully equal in scholarly rendering to its predecessors. It will, we venture to predict, be no less welcome to Harvard students of Plato, than to many who desire to understand Plato's philosophy, but have not acquired Plato's language. To all such readers we heartily recommend this volume as most trustworthy and satisfactory...
Gentle reader, do not understand that we would discourage cleanliness, far from it. We simply wish to warn these bath-room monopolists of the wrath to come, if they persist in their greedy ways. However, we have not the heart to deprive them altogether of a pleasure apparently so much sought by them. We would suggest that they petition for the use of the tubs all night; and then they may sit and soak in peace, undisturbed by the maledictions of the men waiting without...
...does not lie with Dr. Sargent or with the gymnasium officials; of course these gentlemen desire to do all that they can to make their department a credit to the university. The Superintendent of Buildings, who is the Bursar also, has entire charge of the matter, and as we understand the affair, application has several times been made to him for permission to have new lockers constructed. This most reasonable request has been refused, because, forsooth, if these lockers were built, it might possibly happen that all of them would not be taken, and thus a needless expense would devolve...
...wish the public to understand that this is the first communication I have sent to the press on this subject...