Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Certainly the University authorities are correct when they maintain that not everybody has a right to know all concerning Harvard finances. Very few could understand the entire system. But undergraduates should be able to learn more about their University's finances. The House Plan has exacted an additional expense and is a live issue among them. Why, for instance, should they not know the total expenses and income of the seven new dining halls in which they are eating? How is the money which the large room rents bring in distributed? These two questions concern the undergraduate most because they...
There is no reason to believe that the University's finances are not handled honestly and there are few who would doubt that thy are not allocated properly. Moreover, it is easy to understand why the liquid funds should not be listed individually. But there are some items, of vital interest to both the undergraduates who attend the University and to the graduates who contribute to it, which should not be omitted as in this year's report. Certain issues are being evaded; a poor precedent is being set. The validity of the right cannot be doubted, but the manner...
...plead guilty! I did not mean the noble lady should understand it. (laughter...
...Furthermore, the text is riddled with small inaccuracies which might be overlooked by the man who is reading romanticized history; but then there is this critical set of notes and references which would seem to be an attempt to tie everything down to fact. It is hard to understand how the French Academy could have awarded the Montyon prize to this work...
...long ago, Dartmouth accepted for admission next autumn twenty pre-Freshmen, giving them to understand that their last year at school was to be spent in a pursuit of education unhampered by the necessity of cramming for June College Board Examinations. Here was a reasonable provision for the ability of the student of outstanding scholastic promise, the man of such talents that it was detrimental to his education to keep him on the level of his ordinary classmates. It was a recognition of the fact that a year may be more profitably spent than on cramming to make sure...