Word: know
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Kind of water that doctors know...
...acts. Among the more abandoned students many a conspiracy is hatched; in cold blood they often settle on the best plan of working the religious ruin of some fellow-student, and ruthlessly execute it. All of us are familiar with the method of a young man's ruin. We know the lad who entered college a member of one of the strictest churches, well fortified by parental and pastoral advice. For a time all went well with him, and, having talent, he grew in culture and influence. At last, however, his strength failed, and he went down, carrying with...
...another thing which would repay revival here is the game of chess. There are many here who play the game more or less, and some who play it well. But it is most often the case that these persons do not know each other as chess-players; and even if they do, a few desultory games are usually the sole result. Chess clubs have existed here in the past; why should they not be revived now with our other associations? It would bring together those who already play chess, and would encourage others to study the game, which...
...disquisition on the benefits derived from chess need not be entered into now; we probably all know them by heart. But there are many who have never played chess who think it the very essence of stupidity for two persons to sit, one on each side of a table, looking in silence at each other and the board, and finally making a move. But chess may be played for pleasure as well as for mental exercise. We sometimes "knock up," as well as play a ball match; and it is quite as good fun for most...
However, for all we know, men may be so little acquainted with their wives in France as to make this probable, and we should be sorry to find fault with a play which, taken as a whole, is so good...