Word: understood
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...course selected was a very good one, and the time (35 min.) for the five miles was excellent. Perhaps the small number of entries was due to the recollection of the fifteen-mile run last fall; but if the Athletic Association would let it be fully understood that the course is to be five or six miles, and in no case any farther, we have no doubt that we shall see again as many Hounds assembled in front of Matthews as we saw last November...
...differ from the Advocate on the action of the base-ball convention in allowing a college nine, some of whose men are professionals, to play for an amateur championship, and insist that it is establishing a bad precedent. In all intercollegiate contests it is always understood that only amateurs can compete, and the absence of the professional element in base ball heretofore should have warned these men that, by becoming members of a professional club, they ceased to be amateurs, and disfranchised themselves, so to speak. In other words, a long standing precedent becomes in effect a law. These facts...
...mere tests, in which sense the time could undoubtedly be spent more profitably in the instructors' rooms. They exist, therefore, not as ends, but as means, and it is to be hoped that even for this purpose something better will be devised. As simple as this principle is, if understood by all, it is applied by very few of our professors. For, instead of finding questions on a paper which can be answered if one comprehends the general principles that underlie the subject, nearly all the papers are interspersed with "catch" questions, the answers to which involve details...