Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great national question. The verdict of the University will not determine the nation's course, but it will have far more influence on the question of universal military training than it had in determining who should be nominated in Chicago or elected in November. Since the Senate Committee will understand the result as expressing the sentiment of the entire University, each man should exercise due care in casting his ballot...
...brilliance and scintillation of the piece we pride ourselves on comprehending. We can even understand such ideas as "scrapping" a misfit religion or saving souls by killing men, but put everything together and what is the final meaning of the sum total? We rather guess Shaw knew, but he has kept his secret, and the challenge "to make war on war" is virtually a sealed book. All this may be highly commended, for what didactic influence Shaw is attempting to make, is sent out over the footlights with a subtlety and belief that "the malice of a good thing...
...Psychology in Harvard University. Professor Muensterberg declared that he went aboard the steamer that brought him here possessing of the English language only an almost useless smattering acquired in school. Before the voyage across was ended he had acquired, by diligent and vigorous study, the power to speak, understand and write it with facility. He never spoke it exactly as does one to whom English is mother tongue, but the difference of late years was just enough to betray foreign birth, and in his English writings there soon ceased to be even a trace of whatever in writing corresponds...
Since it has been conclusively proved that the Harvard Union cannot exist as a social club in its present weak status, both financially and economically; since the undergraduate officers of the Union were given to understand by the College authorities in May, 1916, that in the event of an affirmative majority on the membership question by the undergraduate body, that the annual fee at a reduced rate would be placed on each undergraduate's term bill; and since the vote showed a three-to-one majority in favor of the above proposition; we, the undersigned Governing Board of the Harvard...
...Baldwin has grown up since the University went there in 1858. Baker, of course, is co-educational, more than half of its 500 students being young ladies. When every member of a recent graduating class was engaged to marry before commencement day. Dr. Mason, the president, began to understand why they were calling the institution "Cupid College" in that part of Kansas. It was no mere coincidence that the students had named the college annual "The orange Blossom." Then came a little informal party at which seven couples, all in the lower classes simultaneously made known their engagements...