Word: know
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Dean will not know you 're away...
...know of no lectures on this subject ever having been delivered here to undergraduates in the academic course, and we would suggest that such a subject be considered...
...That he told her he loved her, I know very well...
...which they think the committee will prefer. If a particular style of speaking is favored by the College authorities, it should be made known, both to the competitors and judges. If excellence alone is desired, no matter what the nature of the piece spoken, both judges and students should know. As things are now, there is doubt about the whole matter. The Professor of Rhetoric himself says everything depends upon the taste of the committee...
While such a plan as the above could do no harm, it might do much good. The first result would be to raise the general average, and hence the standard of scholarship. Every one would know at least once in two months just how he was doing, and would be stimulated to improvement. The professors would be urged to do their best, because "A" men would not attend their recitations unless they considered they really could not afford to be absent. Such a plan unites the best features of German, American, and English universities. It gives a man every privilege...