Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understand that a performance of the comedietta "Queen of Hearts," written by Professor Greenough, will be given in Cambridge soon after the vacation, in aid of the Centennial fund...
...truth is that they do not understand the real value in daily life of what may be called artistic surroundings. It is by no means necessary to have every stick of furniture carved on the very nicest plan that the system of Eastlake has produced; nor to arrange every corner of a room with a studied attention to the picturesque, which would make it look like a magnified reproduction of a modern genre picture. But it is, if not absolutely necessary, at least highly desirable to hang upon your walls pictures that will suggest ideas; pictures at which...
...that the veriest school-boy might detect at his leisure. But all the time, while piloting Mr. Allen with great skill, as he thinks, into Charybdis, he has not noticed Scylla picking off some of his choicest recruits. Or, to speak in a way he cannot fail to understand, he has himself made various blunders, quite enough to relieve Mr. Allen, or any other experienced teacher and scholar, from caring a whit for what he says. Our space will only allow us to mention two. Mr. Allen has translated "standing on one foot" by stantem uno in pede, whereon...
...less? The Executive Committee, upon the advice of our delegates to the late convention, have decided to call a meeting of all the members of the H. U. B. C., and submit this question to them. It is of the greatest importance that every one should fully understand all the bearings of the question before the meeting takes place, in order that action may not be hastily or unadvisably taken...
...darned if I can understand...