Word: misunderstanding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...misunderstand the term freshman. Among the ancient Hindoos, by whom the word was first used, the sterner sex alone was capable of imbibing Greek, Latin and elocution; but tempora mutantur, and with the advent of the nineteenth century it was necessary for women too to be acquainted with empiricism and algebra, and therefore the old Sanskrit word has lost something of its significance...
...some one said last year, Harvard is moulting. She is in a transition state. In some respects, she is already wholly unlike the American colleges, whereas in others she retains her old form. Now we hope our readers will not misunderstand what we are going to say. What we are going to advocate is not a step backward on the part of the students, but a corresponding step forward on the part of the Powers that Be-a recognition of the progress of student public sentiment...
...hope our readers will not misunderstand us. We do not wish to advocate organized agitation and disturbance, on the contrary, we are as glad and proud as anybody, that such things are no longer possible here at Harvard. We simply wish to remind the Powers That Be, of the fact that although their students may have outgrown the old ways of enforcing attention to their needs and grievances, the Powers themselves, have not outgrown the habit of kindly permitting the students to have needs and grievances. Gentlemen of the Faculty, Corporation, and Overseers, remember that now the college papers...
...other kinds of incapable. the fact seems rather to be that college-bred men estimate more justly than men otherwise bred the value of college breeding. They know what it is-what it is worth, and what it is not worth ; both of which many, from absence of knowledge, misunderstand and misconceive...