Word: know
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last the Athletic Committee has consented to allow the base-ball nine to play against professional teams by way of practice. Thus the desire not only of the students but of many of the graduates of the college has been granted. We all know what half a dozen practice games with professional teams would mean for us and we all appreciate and are grateful for the action of the Committee. If now we lose year after year as we have been losing, we can attach no blame to anybody but ourselves. Practically all restrictions have been removed and there...
...uncommon to find Harvard students seriously the worse for habits of drinking. Since then, especially since the foundation of the Hemenway gymnasium, the vice has rapidly diminished. At present, Professor Shaler, whose acquaintance extends to perhaps half the students in the university, does not know of a single one who can be called a drunkard. The use of tobacco he also finds to have largely diminished, and even the use of tea and coffee is much less than formerly...
...stamp to be found. But there are such men, and well known ones at that. I have two in mind at present-Messrs. Edward Plummer and George Goldie, both of whom are far too well known to need any words of praise from me. One of these men I know to be perfectly competent. The other, if not so, only lacks a familiarity with the latest rules, which could be easily acquired. These men are men of sufficient age and experience not to be biased by petty influences. These men have a reputation to maintain. These men would never presume...
...duties at the beginning of the next college year. It says: "The new president is a leader among Western Methodists and is not wholly unknown in the east. He is about 40 years old and for several years has been president of Lawrence University, at Appleton, Wis. Those who know Dr. Raymond best have given him the warmest endorsement. Personally he is said to be a man whom student and faculty 'tie up to,' genial, sympathetic, generous and able to gain the good will of all without sacrificing his dignity. His administrative abilities are said to be marked...
...unusually large, it being impossible to procure a seat in any part of the house two days before the date of the performance. The coming western tour of the Glee and Banjo Clubs probably accounts for the unusual interest taken in their concert, the public being curious to know how Harvard is to be represented in the west...