Word: understood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...could readily be made if desirable. Although a private dwelling, it has that touch of dignity which belongs to an old-fashioned house; and it can easily be adapted to the more general purposes of an educational institution without losing the character of a home. It must, however, be understood that by a home is not meant a dormitory. Suitable lodgings are so easily found in private homes in Cambridge that any other arrangement is unnecessary...
...courses pursued should not at college be a sharply defined line all of one color, but rather a line, it is true, easily distinguished, but here and there shaded off even into entirely different colors. These are not the words of the address, only the ideas as the writer understood them. Strict specialism during a college course was decried and declared to belong only to the professional school. Slight divergences from the bee line were encouraged, as being likely to accomplish more successfully the purpose of a college education...
...faculty wishes it to be understood that vacation study is in no way cumpulsory: that it will receive no marks: that it will have no influence on the assignment of scholarships: and that it will not lessen the number of courses required for a degree...
...mastered the elements of these latter is equipped for any district in the country, since physiology and the principles of common law are always the same. In journalism every locality demands different work. The requirements as well as the taste of the public must be understood and satisfied. The journalistic knowledge which would suit Boston; for example, would be altogether unsuitable for Minnesota. The two essential characteristics of a journalist in any place are the faculty of "knowing what you don't know," and the faculty of knowing what person to interview for news, this latter being largely a matter...
...sent to him by mail, on or before Thursday, May 28. The list of four topics must be clearly written on one side of a card of the size of a postal card, and signed with the name of the student offering the list. It must be clearly understood that no lists can be received by the instructor on the examination day, but that all lists must be presented by Thursday, to give time for scrutiny and, if necessary, for correction of the lists. As ample notice is given of this fact, the instructor earnestly requests that...