Word: understood
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...serious question, however, whether again to attempt lighting the hall. The gas-bills were formerly $ 300 a year, and would probably be as much now. By using droplights for the tables, and side lights for the standing files, no doubt there would be a great saving; but it is understood that no alterations in the manner of lighting will be allowed on account of the inflammable contents of the hall. And even if it is possible to secure 200 additional subscribers, as it would be necessary to do to insure paying for lighting, it is certainly a question...
...many times more than the one hour spent profitably in the manner described. It is another common excuse that there is no use in hearing Homer and Virgil over again when they were learned so thoroughly before coming to college. But they were not then, we claim, understood; they were merely hurried through as so much task-work. It is only in later years that the fine points of these authors are seen. In regard to Dante, no one who professes to any respectable degree of culture can afford to be ignorant of the writings of the great Florentine. Moliere...
...ought not to so place herself that hereafter any undesirable race can be forced upon her. She ought not to involve herself in a series of races from which she cannot withdraw at once; and if the challenges from Columbia are accepted, it ought to be understood that, in accepting these challenges, Harvard does not in the least bind herself to accept others...
...this knowledge are great: some of the causes - perhaps all - have their origin in the history of the Ottoman Empire and of Russian interference, while at least one cause dates back to the Latin Conquest of Constantinople in 1204. Since the subject is so faintly understood, if one of our professors of history would kindly give a lecture, open to the University, on the causes of the present war, tracing the history of both countries only so far as necessary, he would confer a favor on the students that would be highly appreciated. If in the limits of a single...
...committee on the Sophomore Class Supper wish to have it distinctly understood that those wishing tickets must get them at Sever's before next Monday noon...