Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reason, we understand, for this refusal, is that the official duties of the President have so increased during his absence, that he will have no time to prepare an address. We acknowledge that there must be many calls for the President's time and attention, but the same excuse given by a student when he has had several weeks' notice that a forensic will be due March 31st, has been declared null and void...
...other way to bring our boat club out on to a firm financial footing, is to subscribe more liberally to it. We take a just pride in our rowing record and in the club. Let the students subscribe liberal, but let them have their officers understand at the same time that they intend to hold them strictly to account for the manner in which it is spent. If the students subscribe enough for reasonable expenditures and for a reduction of the debt, the management cannot complain. If the students watch the officers closely by keeping acquainted with their accounts, their...
...lecture delivered by John B. Gough, day before yesterday, and the other lectures that we understand are to come under the same auspices, give evidence that the H. T. A. L. is still alive and-, more than that,- prosperous. We are, however, glad to see the society, which has such good purposes, so progressive and enterprising; but we think that a mistake is made in not having these lectures in Sanders Theatre. Mr. Gough could have packed Sever 11 three or four times over, last Tuesday evening. If the lecture had been more widely advertised, the crowd must have been...
...understand that such men as Prof. Emerson of the Munroe School of Oratory, Governor Robinson, and others as prominent as they, are soon to lecture here, under the auspices of the Total Abstinence League. We would therefore recommend that these coming lectures be held in Sanders, which we have no doubt would be filled, if only a moderate amount of advertisement be undertaken. We hope the society will consider this suggestion...
...education that this country affords him, and to be totally and absolutely ignorant of English literature, and to be unable to write English decently. As to the conditions of life, the questions of political economy and the like, which are of absolute importance to any one who wants to understand the social world in which he is living, there is not the slightest need that he should ever have mastered the rudiments of them...