Word: understood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this clear statement, the bizarre and ill understood relations of Harvard and Radcliffe will no more battle the imagination. The "adjoining school for girls" simply employs and enjoys some of "this school's" professors. A simple and understandable commercial relation, that...
...committee has unanimously agreed that the merits of the Honor System, as the term is commonly understood, do not warrant its adoption at present by Harvard University. The reasons for this decision on the part of the committee are four-fold; the size of Harvard, the loosely-knit organization of the University, the lack of any strong feeling of dissatisfaction with the present system of proctors, and the changing nature of examinations...
...would, of course, be understood first that all counter-claims by France against Great Britain would be superseded and, secondly, that if and when payments derived by Great Britain from European War debts and reparations were sufficient to provide for the full discharge of British obligations toward the United States oyer the full period of such obligations, including payments already made, any surplus would be used to diminish the burden resting upon Great Britain's Allies...
...Yale News is campaigning for the abolition of compulsory chapel. It is also understood that in the Fiji Islands they are still combatting cannibalism...
Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor Senator, defeated for reelection in Minnesota last November prepared to contest the election of his victorious opponent Thomas D. Schall, now a Representative from Minnesota. It was understood that the chief accusation was to be that Mr. Schall, who is blind, was supported by a slush fund of $80,000 raised by bootleggers...