Word: understood
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...library for the purpose of founding a college. Others gave modest sums and finally the State supplied what little money was needed in addition. The college was to be at Cambridge and it was unanimously voted to call it Harvard College, after its most munificent donor. It must be understood that John Harvard, and not the Colony Treasury, gave the college to the state. Little or nothing is known of John Harvard and his parents. The date of his departure from England and arrival in this country are also unknown. Emmanuel College, Cambridge, gave him his two degrees...
...humiliating to a man as to be called upon in some public meeting to give his views on a particular measure and to find that though he may have a perfectly clear understanding of the question, he is yet entirely unable to express himself so as to be understood, simply because he has not had the necessary training which it is the object of the Union to give. No one who intends to be a lawyer, minister, or other public speaker, can hope for success unless he has had some preparation of this kind. Membership is open to all students...
...early as yet to prophesy as to what sort of a team Harvard will have this year. Our poor success at foot-ball in the past has been explained in various ways, but the principal reason seems to be that the science of the game is better understood at Yale than elsewhere. There the team receives the benefit of an old experienced player who devotes the greater part of his time in the fall to the interest of the football men. The presence of a reliable coach of course relieves the captain of a large part of his responsibility...
...result of a long cherished design on the part of the editor, to embody in a single work all that is necessary for a study of his author. Prof. Jebb's purpose, as stated in his preface, is to show fully how the work of Sophocles is understood by him, both in its larger aspects and at every particular point, and also to induce educated readers generally to read for themselves the works of the greatest tragedy writer of Athens. For this purpose is introduced the special feature of this edition and the one that will do most to make...
...freshman year embraces many diverse branches of learning. Yet a college career, putting aside the minor studies or specialties, must fall on one of the two roads of learning, the classical or the practical. The former road we may safely predict is fairly well known and understood by the students, of their school education has been the average one, and it is the latter course that gives the tyro the most difficulty to classify. Roughly speaking, a classical course of study embraces mathematics, history, modern languages, philosophy and political economy and English literature. There is naturally a great variety...