Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...officers of a college to create, or, at all events, to promote the growth of such a spirit. College students, however anxious they may be to decorate themselves with the name of men, are +++ general, too young to be expected to assume the burdens of manhood, or even thoroughly understand its duties. They are still in the plastic state. During the four years of the college course, habits are formed which, whether good or bad, will be likely to accompany them through life. "Lead us not into temptation" is, therefore, for them a peculiarly appropriate prayer. - [Scholastic...
...should desire to do this is difficult to understand; the permission granted to anticipate Rhetoric is doubtless a good measure, or else it would not stand among the enactments of the faculty. And we wish to urge upon all '85 men who desire to relieve themselves of an uncomfortable burden of their coming year, not to allow themselves to be in the least frightened or disheartened. The work required to master the subject for the examination can readily be accomplished by an hour's reading each day during the three months' vacation. The examination assigned is not as difficult...
Requirements for admission then were ability to "read and understand fully, Virgill or any such ordinary classical authors, and to readily make, speake, or write true Latine in prose, and hath skill in making verse, and is competently grounded in the Greeke language, so as to be able to construe and grammatically resolve ordinary Greeke - as the Greeke Testament, Isocrates and the Minor Poets, or such like, - haveing withall meet testimony of his towardness." Then follow rules of conduct, one (rule 6) being of the most comprehensive nature...
...announced in the catalogue. This subject has, of late, been receiving special attention among scholars, and the results of their investigations would be of great interest just now to the great majority of students. Every one who heard Prof. Lanman's lectures on the Vedas last year will well understand what he has lost by the omission this year of this course on Buddhism. We are glad to see that the course is announced for next year, and hope that we shall not again be disappointed...
...easily understand how, amidst the pressure of senior work, a man is tempted to put off a thing which seems to him of such little importance. But even if he does not believe in the utility of class lives he must remember that it is one of the customs of the college, and takes but a small sacrifice of personal feeling to follow...