Word: understood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wish it distinctly understood that we cannot undertake to publish any long articles or communications which are left at our office late in the evening. We are always willing to publish communications which we consider to be of sufficient interest, but such communications must be handed in before our paper is made up. Unless this is done we cannot answer for the appearance of articles which under other circus stances we should be happy to print...
...several complaints have been made in regard to this matter, we think it but right to ourselves and to our contributors that our position should be fully understood...
DEAR SIRS.-I think that it ought to be more generally understood that distinctively political transparencies should not be carried in the torchlight procession on Thursday night next. Such was the feeling at the Senior Class meeting some days since. And in view of the fact that large numbers of men go in the procession solely to preserve an old college custom, especial care should be taken to make our marching as free from political significance as possible. Many men, I think, would refuse to march, if they had to do so under any political transparencies. The simplest...
Setting aside the question of propriety, moreover, I am not sure but that the carrying of this transparency is one of the things the seniors have already pledged themselves to abstain from doing. It was expressly stated and understood in the class meeting that our parade had no political significance. The college turnout meant, indeed, that a majority of Harvard men preferred to walk the streets in Republican company; but it in nowise indicated how their political preferences lay. This was the understanding, and the Union canvassers kept record of the choice of processions. But, by carrying transparencies bearing...
...Cotton and Thomas Hooker, fellows and teachers in Emmanuel College, England, also Sims, who lived latterly in Charlestown. There is no portrait or description of John Harvard known to be in existence, but the present statue, the exquisite model in bronze, is an ideal image. But let it be understood that the statue, only by influencing the mind, eye and thoughts serves to call up an ideal representation of the man. It is indeed true that an ideal model is a fit one to take the place of the unattainable statue or portrait ; to flatter is not always to falsify...