Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...understand the private library of the late Dr. Walker, worth $15,000, was bequeathed to the Library...
...college, then, should say caestus artemque repono; but every one should learn the art, if he do not already understand it, and should practise it as an easy means of gaining health and pleasure...
...difficult and often deceptive to try to understand another person's motives, but it would be but charitable to suppose that our teachers realize that the most necessary things are often the most disagreeable, and to allow that, if they give us a good foundation, we may justly be expected to do the easiest and most interesting part of the work ourselves...
...reason for these decisions is, as we understand it, this: That students, by demanding money for their performances, put themselves in the light of professionals before the public, and thereby lower their own dignity and that of the College. Parents may thus be deterred from sending their sons to Harvard, and the high tone of the University lost. It is not likely that any large number regard our entertainments as hurtful in themselves...
TUTOR to SOPH. Do you understand this statement...