Word: understood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tacitly understood at Yale that, barring accidents, the make-up of the university crew will be Hull, Folsom, Rogers, Guernsey, Parrott, Hyndman, and Flanders, of last year's crew, with Bourne, '83, as first, and Peters, '86, as second choice for the vacancy. Tucker, '83, is acting as coxswain...
...poor courts are willing to play in the morning or earlier in the afternoon if they can have the use of a good court at those times. But although they may see dozens of courts unoccupied they do not feel at liberty to use them. Let it be understood that during the morning and until three or perhaps four o'clock in the afternoon every court is open to the first comer. That is, that ownership of a court consists merely of the right to have the exclusive use of a court between certain prescribed hours of the afternoon...
...nearly a month. But as yet there are many courts simply lying idle, as their owners have not yet commenced to play. In our opinion, some regulation should be made on this point. The Tennis Association has full power and can easily pass suitable rules. Let it be understood that those men who own courts in the fall can claim them in the spring up to a certain date, and that if, after that date, the owners have not claimed their courts, the ground is open to the first comer who wishes the court. This will do something towards lessening...
...very inadequately by saying that at the one student life and ways of thinking have acquired certain common characteristics from the mere fact of the dormitory system, while at the other this element of college feeling is entirely lacking. How great an influence this institution has is more easily understood than expressed. That it would be the immediate effect of co-education to destroy this element of college life at Harvard, we do not believe; that such would be the ultimate result seems very probable. But that such a result would be altogether an unmixed evil, provided that...
...used to be customary for a boy on promotion to the Fifth Form to give a supper in his room; and afterwards to recite a satirical ode, passing comments on all the other fellows in his boarding house. These productions were often very coarse, for it was an understood thing that the authors of them were never to be molested by those whom they abused. Gladstone in his Fifth Form poem eschewed all personalities, but conveyed his opinion with great vigor on some of the abuses rife in the school, and in particular on cruelties that used to be practiced...