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Word: know (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course, a right to ask that the men should run on one street only. It is not pleasant for a lady to find herself suddenly surrounded by a lot of scantily-clad men. The men who have run on Craigie and Brattle streets are freshmen who did not know the custom, and so are excusable for the unintentional breach of faith. North Avenue is the best street in Cambridge to run on, as its side-walks are wider than those on any other. So it can be no sacrifice on the part of the men to follow out this request...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/18/1888 | See Source »

...announcement that the athletic committee has given its consent to the employment of a professional base-ball player as trainer and coach for our Nine during the coming year will not be a cause of surprise to those who know that the most liberal and progressive members of the faculty have openly favored the plan during the past few years. The three members of the faculty selected to represent that body on the athletic committee, after a patient and thorough investigation of the subject, have been convinced from the numerous letters received from former captains of our base-ball nines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/14/1888 | See Source »

...know from experience that a nine with scientific coaching can make more progress while the frost is coming out of the ground than any untrained team can make in an eternal summer of practice. It is the beginning which counts and is so vital to base-ball, and this is especially true of a college nine, for development must needs be very rapid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition for the Employment of a Professional Coach for the Ball Nine Granted by the Athletic Committee. | 12/14/1888 | See Source »

...number to a great extent and simply because the Exeter men in other colleges have offered to their hesitating brethren what seemed to be greater advantages than are to be found among us. We understand fully how zealous every Harvard man is to help his college but we also know that a little well directed energy will accomplish more than any amount of well-intentioned talk which does not completely persuade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/10/1888 | See Source »

...Triumph of Sorrow," contributed by Mr. Herrick, has a meaning so deeply hidden that we are not quite sure that we understand it. We feel rather than know the writer's thoughts. In spite of the obscurity, the piece is very well written...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The December Monthly. | 12/10/1888 | See Source »

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