Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...understand that it has been proposed to introduce an innovation into the chapel services next year which cannot but result in making them even more interesting than at present. Mr. Locke, the chorister and organist of the chapel, intends to organize a choir of about fifteen boys to sing alto and soprano parts, while the present choir as usual take the tenor and bass parts. The range of music written for the parts at present taken by the choir is exceedingly limited, and for this reason it has been felt for some time that a change was necessary...
...college president says that every student should thoroughly understand three languages - English, German and French; and an alarmist wants to know what will become of the three b's - boating, boxing and base-ball - if English is taken...
...Harvard freshmen this afternoon promises to be one of the most interesting events of the season. Although we have often been taught not "to count our chickens before they are hatched," we predict the success of the home nine with no small degree of confidence. The freshman faculty, we understand, are to lend eclat to the occasion by their presence; and what strength should not this circumstance alone inspire! As an appropriate climax to so famous a victory, the freshmen will make a triumphant entry into the city. The line of march will be the most direct route...
...that has, no doubt, largely ministered to the growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...
...quite premature. It is ridiculous to find fault with the management because a vacancy of only a month's standing has not been already filled. The position of steward is a responsible and important one and as such can not be filled at a moment's notice. We understand that there have been numerous applicants for the position, whose credentials and recommendation must be thoroughly examined before an appointment is made. It has taken several years to get the present steward out, and it is fitting therefore that we should be careful in the appointment of his successor...