Word: understood
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...must be clearly understood that no one is eligible for these prizes unless officially registered as a Senior or a Junior. This means that no man who is socially a Senior or a Junior, but who is either registered in the Law or Graduate Schools, or, on account of an entrance condition, as a Sophomore, will be allowed to compete...
...generally understood that Professor Lowell is in favor of an exclusively Freshman dormitory, big enough for all the members of the class. If this could be established, the question of Freshman unity would be settled once and for all. With the whole class lodged under one roof, with a suitable common room for a general meeting place, the members would soon become acquainted, and many friendships would be formed immediately which now take about four years to develop. But it will undoubtedly be some time before this ideal is realized, and another method should be devised for use until that...
President Eliot denied yesterday that the newspapers have been given authority to publish any report concerning his reply to President Taft's offer of the Ambassadorship to the Court of St. James. President Eliot said he understood that President Taft had made no statement concerning the matter, and that there was nothing that he cared to say himself on the subject...
Nietzsche must be understood as the expression of the present mental crisis in Germany. His greatest work is "Zarathustra." Upon its appearance he was acclaimed by the noisy multitude as a Messiah, although his mission is that of a John the Baptist. He marks the turning point at an exceedingly low epoch, toward an as yet unknown future. This work is aphoristic in style, and is the result of his spiritual creative faculty...
...since he longs for the holiness of an eternal ethical value in life. He has been mistaken for a philosopher. Critics who have sought to condemn him on these grounds have thereby failed to comprehend his message, since his works cannot be analyzed according to ideas, but must be understood in regard to mental attitudes...