Word: understood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...test." The Times further argues in favor of substituting regular weekly examinations, in place of the present system of annual or of term examinations. Then it says very strongly : "Under such a system, and with other equally necessary reforms, a college degree might be made to represent a certain understood amount of solid acquirement, which it certainly does not now." This is emphatic language, - perhaps too emphatic ; but that the present examination system is an abuse, and very nearly an imposition and a fraud, is an opinion which is coming to be held by so many nowadays that it cannot...
...taken the trouble to glance at some college papers, he would have at least somewhat moderated his statements. We make bold to say that upon careful examination we have noticed that the papers of co-educational colleges almost universally possess a spirit of freedom and, to use a well understood term, of broadness that would not be tolerated in Harvard journalism. We could readily give illustrations of this fact, but it would be useless; all who have read co-educational college papers must have noticed it. We do not wish to be rude, but with all due respect for girls...
Judge-Advocate-General Swaim has made a report to the Secretary of War upon the case of Sergeant Mason, in which it is understood he recommends a modification of the latter's sentence...
...Automedon Harnessing the Steeds of Achilles," by Henri Regnault, which was sold recently for $5,900, does not go to the Corcoran Gallery, as it was understood on the night of the sale. It is said on good authority to have been bought for the Crow Museum of Cincinnati...
...which to make the commons a success. The college authorities must relieve the students from all responsibility or care in the matter, and conduct the hall as they do dormitories. They must make a college affair of it, if we may use an expression that will be readily understood. It would be useless for us to explain how easy it would be for the authorities to do this; how an especial officer should be appointed, with a fair salary, to attend exclusively to the interests of the commons; or how well they could avoid the errors into which we have...