Word: understood
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...being you would expect to de scend to the vulgarity of flirting. . . . . But a woman ! as a woman she seems something divine," etc, etc., ad infinitum. The character of the gentleman, who says he is twenty-eight, but who, from strong internal evidence, is barely eighteen, may further be understood from the following remark : "How often have I had a dear foolish girl inflicted upon me, and fairly writhed at the intellectual torture to which she has subjected me by her remarks. But there has been no escape. Everybody would have called me a boor had I ventured to tell...
...graduates of the college could assemble frequently. It is proposed to erect or rent a building in which to fit up a reading or club room, and to furnish the remainder with bachelor apartments, which can be occupied by the members of the college and their friends. It is understood that the building corner of Twelfth Street and Broadway may be taken...
...beneficial effect, too, on the fortunate man who drew the first prize must have been incalculable; and although he may not have understood exactly how he was "promoting the best interests of his country," yet he was certainly convinced that the fruits of learning are great indeed...
...mark of courtesy in us to yield to them: but now they refuse to extend us the same courtesy. To the fact brought forward by our captain, that all the colleges of the Association had agreed to play with a fifteen, they replied that they had understood we were training an eleven only, though they owned that the information came from no authoritative source. Captain Cushing at last said he would not play them this year, with either fifteen or eleven men, and he has expressed the sentiment of the College. The game with fifteen has various advantages that cannot...
...forfeit the game if we do not play with an eleven is certainly remarkable, when we bear in mind that it was Harvard, not Yale, that sent the challenge, and that fifteen was the number agreed upon by all the colleges. The captain of our team wishes it distinctly understood that he does not recognize their claim, and declines playing this fall on any conditions...