Word: understood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shall endeavor to express what appears to me to be the student feeling. If I am mistaken in my interpretation of that sentiment, I do not doubt that I will soon be corrected through your columns. In the first place, I should like to have it understood that we do not question the good intentions of the faculty. Every student appreciates their motives, and although the students may not agree on the action of the faculty, they certainly believe that the majority of the faculty are actuated only by a desire to benefit the college...
With regard to resolution 7, I should like to ask if it was not understood in the preliminary conference, which I attended, that boating was to be excepted from the subjects to be considered. I certainly so understood it. Dr. Sargent suggested the exception on the ground that the boating interests of Harvard and Yale were practically under the management of graduates. It seemed to me at the time a strange exception, and one which could not be well defended. But to change the distance to be rowed from four to three miles was needless. The reason for the change...
...Boston Advertiser of yesterday there was a list of the resolves drawn up at New York by the conference committee of the different colleges. It was understood that the resolutions and their adoption or rejection should not be made public until action had been taken on them by all the faculties separately. The reason was that the action of one should not influence the others, but that each should act independently. The article in the Advertiser was dated Providence, and from this we surmise that there must have been some breach of faith on the part of some...
...understood that the faculty of Brown University will not favor the resolutions adopted by the committee of conference on athletics...
...young men who were recognized as college students were arrested in Trenton, N. J., for disorderly and obnoxious conduct. They permitted it to be understood that they were from Pirnceton, but on a Princeton man appearing it was discovered that they were from Yale, and had wandered quite a distance beyond their Alma Mater's tender care, and got into trouble thereby...