Word: knew
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After some time I may wish to visit the University. If so I should have no pleasure in meeting friends whom I thought would not be friends if they knew the truth. I should rather have the friendship of one fellow in the University who knew of this act and forgave it than the friendship of the whole University if this friendship was based on ignorance of the facts. I wished to write this letter before leaving Cambridge, when I first saw the demands for my name in the CRIMSON, but there were others to be thought...
...abattoir men (upward of a hundred in number) were reported as exceptionally healthy. Two cases, both imported, were found near Faneuil Station among workmen. Auburndale appeared to be responsible for them, as the men lived there. Moreover, as farther down the river, the Brighton physicians, of whom I inquired, knew of no cases in the vicinity...
...President Perkins, of the Junior Class, wish to report that they have looked into the public statement, made by an officer of the University, that the painting of the John Harvard statue was the work of a prominent member of the class of 1898, and that half the class knew the name...
When Governor Andrew received permission to fit out a negro regiment he asked Robert Shaw to be its colonel. The young officer, doubtful of his ability at first refused, but on being told by his commanding officer that he was fitted for the post accepted it. He knew that neither he nor his men would be treated as equals by friends or enemies but steadfastly did his duty. In February he took command of the regiment at Readville, on the 2d of May he was married, on the 28th he started for the front. On the 19th of July following...
...seems that a few months ago an inquiry was made of Mr. Appleton about this cup, and learning that no such cup now existed, that no one at least knew anything of it, as it had not appeared as a college trophy for many years, Mr. Appleton at once set about learning the facts of its disappearance. The search involved some correspondence with the college authorities, in whose custody it had always been, and the cup itself was finally found in the safe at the bursar's office, where it had lain undisturbed since...