Word: understood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great novelist, on November 1st, at Music Hall, Boston. This is his first appearance in Boston and if we may judge from comments of the English journals, Mr. Dickens is a very accomplished elocutionist and his reading will well repay the trouble of going to hear him. It is understood that his selections will be made entirely from his father's works...
...understood that the outline in Political Economy 4 will be considerably changed and enlarged this year...
...professorship funds is only about $30,000, while the annual payments to the instructors in the college is over $154,000. No one can doubt that if the alumni gave what they can well afford to give, and what they would probably be willing to give if they fully understood the facts, a fund could be accumulated which would yield an income sufficient to pay men like Professors Bowen, Child, Norton, Gibbs, Cooke, Dunbar, Peirce, Goodale, Shaler and Royce amounts nearly as large as they could earn by their pens if they devoted their entire time to literary work...
...understood that Mr. Carey did not give any money for a swimming tank, but has offered a sum for the erection of a building in which the nine can practice hand-ball during the winter...
...ball, can he? What do you say to that, Fothergill? Can any one hit one of your curves?" Fothergill rather thought not; and considering that an income about ten times as large as an English curate's is paid a first-class pitcher in America, it will be readily understood that if any one could knock their pitching about at pleasure, they would be rather costly at that price. The Englishmen, however, though they may have begun to suspect that there must be more in base-ball pitching than met the eye, could not but maintain their opinion that even...