Word: understood
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...manner in which they are to be treated; and, in the absence of any explanation by the College on this point, it would be well if the students who are acquainted with the courses would give a short criticism of such as are not likely to be understood by others, so that those who choose them may do so with the advantage of having their experience to guide them. The difficulty of which we speak becomes more apparent after the electives are commenced in the following year, when it is discovered, after it is too late to change...
...Xenophon and Plutarch. Then follow the classes of Rhetoric and Philosophy, without doubt the two most interesting and profitable. In view of their importance, I beg leave to acquaint you with some details of the course of study in these last years, - details all the more necessary to be understood, inasmuch as the examination for the baccalaureat deals principally with the matter taught during this period...
...place of business," he turned his inquiring gaze upon the passers-by, as if seeking for a youth whose appearance betokened him as coming from the classic shades of the Square. After looking from sunrise until the mists from the Back Bay had chilled him through, he at last understood that he had been deceived; he had advertised, but with no return. Praying that he might be blessed with only one more interview with the honorable youth who had beguiled him into paying twenty dollars to furnish the students with tabular views, the edges of which were ragged with torn...
...clear form of the word is presented and taken in at once by the eye, without being separated into its different parts, any more than the ticks of the telegraphic-sounder in expressing a word are separated by a practised ear. The signs are combined according to easily understood principles, and abbreviations, such as small circles and hooks, are added in so methodical a way that the mind is not burdened by their remembrance, but accepts them readily as developments of a general plan. The only arbitrary marks are the "word-signs," which stand for about a hundred...
...their advocacy. For this reason it is to be noticed that the two colleges - Princeton and Williams - which lead off the attempt to establish the Intercollegiate literary contests, have not been among the foremost to transform school-boys into students. The President of one of them, who is understood to be strongly in favor of the proposed plan, has already made widely known his views upon College discipline, and it is not unnatural that he should now wish to lead into the arena his well-tamed pupil, moulded to his own sweet will, and fully crammed for the conflict...