Word: understood
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...smoke of which the room was so full that you could hardly see; and the whole house smelt so strong of it, that when I was going up stairs I said, 'This is certainly a tavern.' We excused ourselves that we could speak English only a little, but understood Dutch or French, which they did not. However, we spake as well as we could. We inquired how many professors there were, and they replied not one, that there was no money to support one. We asked how many students there were. They said at first thirty, and then came down...
...course that is, in one way, true. The poetry of Shelley or Wordsworth is better, judged by the absolute standard, than that of our college papers; but as educators of college taste they may be inferior, since the poetry of our classmates is more superficial and more easily understood than the work of those who have been breathing the atmosphere of poetry all their lives." Chum repeated his previous remark...
...neither just toward the societies nor likely to prove beneficial to the University. Upon the Hasty Pudding Club the decree of the Corporation falls with great severity. They have occupied their present quarters for at least twenty-six years, and when the rooms were given them it was understood that they were to hold them permanently. Two thousand dollars were subscribed by graduates at the time, and this sum was expended on the rooms. Now, after being in possession for over a quarter of a century, the Club is told to " move on," and, with the hand-organ grinders...
...been thoroughly insulated, the batteries newly fitted up, and everything put in perfect working order. The Company desires that its number of members be recruited from the lower classes, in order to perpetuate its existence, and it is to be hoped, now that the nature of the society is understood, that students who are at all interested in this matter will enroll their names immediately...
...pronounced by the outside world to have acted in a fair and straightforward manner. If we had severed immediately our connection with the Association, we should ourselves have felt satisfied that we were perfectly justified in our action; but as the general public would never have properly understood our motives, it is as well, perhaps, that we took a course which will not bring adverse criticism upon the College. Looking at the matter in this light, we should be grateful to the graduates for what they have done...