Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the annex will meet at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Pach's studio to be photographed. The remainder of the afternoon, we understand, has been reserved for the process and we publish this notice that every student may have fair warning. Any Harvard man entering the premises during the time specified will do so at his peril...
...understand that a committee from the corporation and from the board of overseers has been considering the question of a radical change in the requirements for admission to the college as well as a corresponding change in making the work of the freshman year wholly or in part elective. The measures proposed in regard to requirements for admission are truly startling in their character, and if adopted, as the committee propose, seem destined to inaugurate nothing less than a revolution in collegiate education in America. These plans include nothing less than the entire abolition of all requirements in Greek...
...best way to understand and judge the elective system is to see its practical workings. Courses in ancient languages are taken by 564 men, of whom 295 take Greek and 209 Latin. Courses in modern languages are taken by 807 men, of whom 324 take German, 178 English, 188 French and 51 Italian. 182 men elect Philosophy, 188 Political Economy and 588 History, while Fine Arts is elected by 138. Courses in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Natural History occupy the attention...
...remark on the unpardonable incompleteness of the history department. There are ample opportunities for studying European history, but, with the exception of two electives in the constitutional and political history, there is absolutely no attention given to America, in either its colonial or national existence. No one can properly understand our institutions or ideas without a knowledge of our early colonial and national history; and yet, in spite of this fact, there is not a single course in either of these branches...
...understand that the managers of the Freshman crew are meeting with some difficulty in securing the payment of the subscriptions which have been made by the members of the class. We hope that the mere mention of the fact will cause every one to reflect upon the trouble which is thus occasioned the managers, and by so doing bring about a speedy removal of this source of annoyance...