Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...once. The men are impostors and their wares fraudulent. A visit was paid to the Law School a day or two ago by the fellows, but they were remembered from last year and men were on their guard. On being told to "clear out" they pretended not to understand, but when by a happy thought some one cried out "sortez done," followed by "sortez donkey" from another quarter, they quickly retired in good order...
...paper - a case of absent-mindedness only equalled perhaps by that of the professor who once on inquiring for his mail at the post-office, was unable to give his own name to the clerk, and departed highly indiguant at the obtuseness of the latter in failing to understand his wants...
...dispatch from New Haven to the Boston Herald, dated last evening, says : "A letter was received tonight by the secretary of the Yale Boat Club, from the secretary of the Harvard Boat Club, in which it was stated that Harvard did not understand that the graduate committee had full power in the premises, and asking that they be advised on that point. If the committee had full power in the matter, they could not imagine that a joint committee should be unable to reach a satisfactory conclusion, and they proposed to abide by their decision. But they wished to express...
...proceed from an ignorance of the subject which renders it exasperating. We are glad to have these papers take an interest in our affairs, but we must beg of them not to try to show us how those affairs shall be carried on until they understand them a little better...
...Life, Progress says: "Those interested in the paper are, I understand, Harvard graduates, and it must be said that Life has the look of college journalism about it," - which may be taken as a compliment to college journalism or otherwise, as you choose...