Word: understanded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last night which has filled our peaceful community with horror and amazement. This was nothing less than the entire destruction of the street lamps of the city by a party of scoundrelly ruffians, who, there can be no doubt, are students of ??? College. President Socrates should be made to understand that the outraged community will no longer endure the criminal excesses of his students. We give the particulars of the shocking occurrence below...
...system of correcting themes seems too to be defective. The application of certain stereotyped words and phrases to all sorts of errors is extremely unsatisfactory. When we have been careful in framing our sentences, we cannot understand how those sentences are to be corrected, when they are simply marked with such expressions as "vague," "obscure," and the like, and no further explanation is given...
Under the system, as it now exists, we understand how impossible it is for each theme to be fully criticised in the recitation-room, but if the number of instructors were increased, each student could receive the benefit of separate instruction...
...have before had occasion to speak of the want of consideration shown by certain instructors in keeping their sections after the hour. In some cases the evil still continues. It is, we understand, a regular practice of one of the instructors in Greek not to let his men out until four or even five minutes after the proper time...
...excess by his own countrymen, was in reality a coarse and ignorant man. So was his wife, and all her relations. His daughter, too, though she had aspirations, was very uncultured and inexperienced. The polite English people looked upon her with horror not unmingled with amazement. They did not understand her vagaries; they did not know that American society is provincial...