Word: understood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporters said they understood...
Most liberal arts colleges have for years recognized the importance of speech training in college education. Many engineering and technical schools, realizing the scientist's difficulty in making himself understood, have also required speech courses of all students. Harvard's own speech program is shoddy in comparison. While good written expression is given the utmost concern here, general teaching of clear, concise speech habits is almost neglected. The University offers only three courses in public speaking. One of these cannot be taken for credit; another is limited to fifteen members. None of these courses, all taught under the English Department...
Adhering to past policy, the University has released no statement pertaining to the new salaries. But it is understood that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences first learned of the impending increase at its meeting on March...
...Department, Saltzman mentioned the present security program. "It is certainly time," he admitted, "that mistakes were made in the early stages of the 1958 program, when everybody's record had to be rechecked. But these errors occurred under a new set of rules which were not fully understood...
Professor Thomas J. Pressly of the department of History, responsible for Miller's scheduled lecture, declared. "There are rumors of two or three other refusals like Miller's in the making." Pressly also understood that President Schmitz had recently appeared before the faculty governing board, but had refused to discuss "questions of policy...