Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many years been held during the early part of November, no definite date has yet been fixed for the choosing of the new 1929 officers. As far as can be learned from the present class officers who have now been in office for nearly a year, it is understood to be rather improbable that any steps will be taken towards the nominations for some time, at least not until after the mid-year examination period is over...
...authoritatively that Harvard and Boston College will not meet in competition the present college year. For the past month rumors have been current to the effect that Harvard and Boston College were soon to resume athletic relations. Although Harvard officials have refused to comment on the situation, it is understood that overtures have been made by Frank Reynolds, graduate manager of athletics at the Heights, with the view to a resumption of hockey and baseball relations this season...
...colleges for the development of the student in whatever way means most to the student himself and to society. As counsellor of other institutions and as President of Harvard, he contributed greatly to the evolution of the American college into the American university; he first among American educators rightly understood the character, scope, and function of university training in such professions as law and medicine, and to his forceful initiative and convincing advocacy the improvement of medical and legal education in the United States is largely due. These notable contribution to education by no means exhaust the list...
...graduate secretaries of the Union stated that it is understood that President Lowell had secured the cooperation of the Corporation in planning a dining hall which will be located on the site of the old Catholic church on the northwest corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets...
There was none of the barbarity which characterizes the ordinary funeral service, no hysterics. He was in the hands of friends who knew and understood the manner of his living, who therefore made the manner of his dying as he would have...