Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other time the sincerity of our college attachments and our college feelings, And it is in our past-collegiate life that we are to gain the best results from college societies. It is then that looking back upon the happiest period of our lives, we can understand the real significance and the immense value of college societies. Much has been said of late concerning the uselessness and therefore the folly of college societies. As one of the powerful and by no means silent answers to this accusation I point to the Delta Upsilon Quarterly...
...light offence. We refer to the habit of "cribbing." That a man should have so little sense of honor as to deliberately copy sentence after sentence from a book, or degrade another man by hiring him to write his theme, indicates a code of morals which is difficult to understand. At last a man has been detected in this practice, and it is said, has been expelled from the University. While it is far from the wishes of the CRIMSON to try in any way to palliate the offence, we must agree with a growing college sentiment, which says that...
...understand that the Executive Committee intend to present only the names of those men who have spoken at least twice from the floor, and have shown a desire to acquire the art of extemporaneous speaking. It therefore behooves all who desire an election to avail themselves of the opportunity to speak at the next meeting of the society to be held one week from Friday. While any one is entitled and urged to speak from the floor, only members are appointed principal disputants...
...successful re-start of the reading-room warrants a call for a reading-room founded on some permanent foundation. This periodic life of the reading-room has neither sustained vigor nor lasting growth to recommend it. When the library is remodelled, it is the intention, we understand, to provide a place for a general newspaper reading-room within its walls. This reading-room should be maintained by a special appropriation, and the management taken from the hands of students. In this way it can be supported in manner more in keeping with Harvard's resources than the present meagre funds...
...Princetonian says editorially: "We understand that Princeton will undoubtedly in the near future have a student conference committee. It is something which undergraduates have urged again and again in the past, but which may be said to have grown from the emergencies of the present year. On several occasions during the past few weeks self-appointed committees of students have presented one claim and another before the faculty or one of its numerous committees...