Word: understandingly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which seems more than probable from their previous attitude in the question, there does perhaps remain one expedient to be adopted, if indeed the college is now at last ready for a final settlement of this much-vexed question. This plan is not altogether a new one; but we understand that it has received the approval of several members of the college government, and it seems, next to the scheme for a regular university commons, to be the most feasible of any yet suggested. It is that a contract be made between the corporation and some experienced and responsible person...
Memorial Hall is one of the most attractive features of the college, and to many one of the pleasantest factors of their student life. It must be maintained at all efforts, and it is really difficult to understand why its successful support should be for an instant even doubted of. Numberless schemes for improving the condition of the Dining Association have been offered. Some are worthless, others seemingly good, but the majority possess the salient objection of being impracticable. The faults usually found with the hall are generally without foundation. The price, considering all things, is moderate; the fare...
...useless for us to explain how easy it would be for the authorities to do this; how an especial officer should be appointed, with a fair salary, to attend exclusively to the interests of the commons; or how well they could avoid the errors into which we have fallen. Understand us, that we find no fault with those who have hitherto managed the hall, but we feel that unavoidable mistakes have happened, not been made, from the very nature of the circumstances, and we think it has been shown conclusively that students cannot manage a dining association of the size...
Rejected, as we were afraid our readers would not understand...
...often see a funny phrase in some of our exchanges which we do not understand. "The coeducational members of the college," etc. What are "coeducational members?" How are they different from other students? "Strengthen us, enlighten us, we faint in this obscurity...