Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From another source it was gathered that this change was not only due to a question of service but also to the advice of the Ladies Visiting Committee. This committee, it is understood, through investigations of their own and from the advice of certain Freshmen, came to the conclusion that the risk entailed in having white waitresses was far less detrimental than the discontent caused by the negresses...
...taking up the question of its own reorganization, it is understood that the Council was practically unanimously in favor of some change which would reduce the size of the body. It has long been felt that, as now constituted, the Student Council is both unwieldy and impotent and the real question of dispute has been one of method rather than principle...
...members of the class in Sever 5 were engaged, yesterday morning in reading from Chaucer, a pigeon forced entrance to the room, and by dint of a terrifically clamorous cooing from the dark recesses of the ceiling, forced them to the extremities of distinct articulation in order to be understood...
Divorced. Isadora Duncan, famed dancer, from Serge Essenin, Bolshevik poet who "wooed her with gestures, since neither understood the other's language"; in Russia. Word came that Isadora sought the divorce because of her husband's waning enthusiasm for the Bolshevik regime, which she still favors...
...examinations of the present type; nor of disciplinary measures such as that relic of school days, Probation, so that any student who could not do the work, or who lost interest, would simply be expected to make room for one more suitable. Perhaps, however, such matters are understood...