Word: understood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Egypt, are of great value, as witness his letter in the Times of May 22 touching the statue of 'Joseph's Pharaoh' found by him and Naville at Bubastis in April. Our museums need an American to do similar work for science, to interpret 'things hard to be understood,' to tabulate coins, and indeed to deal understandingly with the many kinds of Egyptian antiques. We have important private collections wherein mines of knowledge await the mental pick and spade of the trained investigator...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- A phrase in the recent Class Day circular, containing the word "tradesmen," has not been understood. Please allow me to say something concerning it through your columns...
...word "tradesmen" was intended to cover the two limited cases above, and that is all. Perhaps the word was badly selected to express our meaning, but we thought it would be generally understood. The committee is acting solely with the desire to make Class Day as pleasant as possible, and to that end we ask that tickets be given to seniors' friends, and to them only. We do not wish to curtail any one's rights to give tickets to his friends, for that is what the ticketsare for. On the contrary we wish to make the enjoyment...
...threat of the Yale faculty to abolish all intercollegiate contests in the future has created a great deal of excitement among the students. It is tacitly understood, however, that as the faculty do not in any way object to the contests in themselves but to the general disturbances resulting from a victory, if the students will pledge themselves to restrain their ardor in the celebrations, the faculty will let the matter drop. In order to insure the continuance of all intercollegiate games, the students have themselves taken the proposition in hand and have set about organizing a special college police...
...understood that there will be a half-course in clocution next year...