Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gradually being cleared for Sarah Bernhardt's return to the Comedie Francaise. The nomad star has been given to understand that if she pleases to come back, the 100,000 francs damages to which she has been condemned will not be exacted; whereas, if she plays at the Vaudeville in the autumn, as she has arranged with Sardou, the Comedie will exact the payment of that sum. In any case, Sarah's return to Paris will be a great event. It will be curious to see what effect her travels will have had upon her talent and her golden voice...
...just come to a passage which he could not understand when he was called upstairs by Mrs. Butterfield, who was in a state of considerable excitement. Mr. Butterfield had run across another item in the catalogue, headed "admission," which had driven all thoughts of the cost of living out of the heads of both him and his wife. Benjamin was catechised about what he knew, and as that is a question readily answered only by members of a graduating class, he innocently admitted that he did not know what he did know or what he did not know...
...bringing of new ideas into the mind through objects, classifying ideas, comparing them, and combining them into new creatures of the imagination. Rote learning is simply inculcating stupidity, both in pupil and teacher. It will be a happy day for the public schools when all teachers are made to understand these plain truths...
...understand that the second resignation of the auditor, handed in some time ago, has been accepted...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Last Sunday's Detroit Free Press gave a column to a very interesting description of the celebrated Harvard Gymnasium and the recent athletic exhibition given there. Here at Ann Arbor, where we have practically no gymnasium, it is hard for us to understand the general interest taken in athletics by the Harvard students...