Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grade of C or better is termed "satisfactory". It is understood that the reading examinations will be continued as previously, although under the new conditions they will be taken by a much smaller number...
First, Harvard's position in the intercollegiate world must be clearly understood, and it is a peculiar position that has grown up from the fact that Harvard, together with a small clique in the east that includes Yale, Princeton, Cornell and Pennsylvania, were the pioneers in intercollegiate athletics. These schools were the oldest in the country and they were the first to establish athletics on a plane in any way comparable to the present highly organized system of university sports...
...Cabinet took its cue, resigned. President Emiliano Figueroa asked General Ibanez if he would care to form a new Cabinet. By night the new Ibanez Cabinet was functioning. Chileans understood that there would be no more tabasco talk of "Moscow" until General Ibanez again wants to do something arbitrary...
...understood that when the new laboratory buildings are completed, a broad avenue, extending roughly east and west, will be laid out on the college grounds. It will begin in front of Austin Hall of the Law School and running between the Jefferson Physical Laboratory on the north and the Music Building on the south, will run to the main entrance of the buildings. As soon as the new laboratory is available for use, Boylston Hall, which has for many years housed the Department of Chemistry, will be turned over to some other department of the University...
...rich father; others sneered: smart father, providing for doltish son. Son Fiske, no dolt, proved himself no selling genius his first year as an insurance solicitor. His chief business experience, previously, had been in the export field. But he had listened to his father discourse on life insurance. He understood its economics and during his second year with Metropolitan he made his knowledge pay. He wrote up policies worth more than $1,000,000 and has exceeded that sum yearly since. Last week Metropolitan bookkeepers told him that during 1926 his policies totaled $34,075,950. He was the company...