Word: understood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been at any time a feeling that these meetings were not a success, were not fulfilling the object for which they were intended, it must now have disappeared. The meeting of Tuesday evening was of the greatest use in enabling the students to see the hitherto obnoxious and ill-understood recommendations of the Overseers in a much more satisfactory light...
...time is more intelligent than ever before, one reason being that our text is a very pure one, better even than the one used by Virgil. The subject matter of the poem, too, has been thoroughly illumined by the united learning of many eminent scholars; mythology, likewise, is better understood, as is also the civilization of the Homeric age. So that with improved helps and a better point of view we are prepared to do good work in the study of Homer...
Experimental trips have been made with the electric cars the past week from Harvard Square to the West Boston bridge. The running time proves very satisfactory. It is understood that the line will be formally opened from Harvard Square to Bowdoin Square next Friday...
...generally understood by the repeal of the old regulation that no objection will be made to a contest with any team on the mere ground that it is professional, so that the nine is now practically free to play with professional teams...
...medical attendance. This is a bill which was presented to a member of the team who had been seriously injured, for accompanying him to New York, where he went towards the end of his convalescence to witness the game on Thanksgiving day. The member of the team doubtless understood that the surgeon accompanied him out of friendship and a desire to see the game, in which he was personally interested. The surgeon chose to construe the case as a matter of business, and made his charge according to the schedule of prices arranged by the medical society. at the rate...