Word: understood
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...securing of men with world-wide reputations. Tonight such an opportunity is at hand in the addresses by Mr. Choate and General Porter, who are to speak on the Hague Conference. Both speakers are authorities on their subject and should throw new light upon a topic far too little understood...
...done extensive work in advanced chemistry, and preference will be given to one who has received broad theoretical training in research which will serve as a foundation for the subsequent practice of technical chemistry. Only students of unusual ability will be considered. It is understood that the holder of this stipend will do no other work, such as tutoring or proctoring in examinations; but a laboratory assistant may receive a part of the stipend, or it may be divided between two assistants who conform to the above conditions. The award of the prize is made on the recommendation...
...attitude of the British representative; it had a radical effect on the positions of Italy and Spain. The relations between France and England may be termed dynamic rather than static, and they are to a great extent dependent on the policy pursued by France in Morocco. It should be understood, however, that the agreement is a first-class diplomatic instrument rather than an alliance...
...Blind," by Lee Simonson, a piece of symbolistic satire in dialogue, hardly hits its mark. A review of Mr. Hermann Hagedorn's "Silver Blade" is highly laudatory but not very discerning. The play seems to have been not well understood by the critic. A former editorial, pointing out the advantages of the Degree with Distinction in History and Literature, is reprinted with good reason...
...appointed by the Athletic Committee. This committee would have power to appoint the head coach and to reappoint him if advisable, but would not have power to interfere with the work of the coach after he had been appointed. A coach feeling that his efforts and motives were understood by those capable of appreciating them from a technical as well as a general point of view would be in a far better position than one at the mercy of a captain, influenced, possibly, by many outside considerations. FISHER H. NESMITH