Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is every reason, then, why they should go into the game today with dash and confidence, prepared to play the best they know how and win. This event marks a crisis in their class history, and is of no small importance to the University. The record of past Freshman contests has been highly creditable to Harvard, and she expects the 1901 team to prove its merit and add another victory to the list...
...same stock. They are both more thoroughly cosmopolitan than men from other colleges. They come from all ranks of society, and from all sections of the country. They are prepared side by side in the same schools. For these and many other reasons, then, Harvard men and Yale men know and respect each other, and are natural friends and rivals. We hope that this game will be the entering wedge to a still more intimate relationship than the two institutions have enjoyed in the past...
...James prefaced his lecture by an outline of the ground that the lecturer might cover co-operatively under the head of the subject, immortality. His address was a discussion and refutation of two objections; one questioning how in the absolute dependence upon the brain of spiritual life, as we know it here, there can be immortality; and the second relative to the incredible number of beings which we must believe to be immortal if immortality be true...
...point of view taken by the writers of these letters, we think that their alarm is a little unnecessary, and that they misinterpret the spirit in which the song was written and published. They read between the lines a combination of ill-timed overconfidence, and viciousness toward Yale. We know that the verses in question, as a matter of fact, gave voice to neither the one nor the other. We feel confident moreover that they were not so understood by undergraduates here, and that if noticed at all by Yale men, which is improbable, they would not be considered either...
...football team, having entered upon the regulation week of secret practice before the big game of the season, has reached a point where little more can be done to develop it. As a result, most men who know a little, and a great many who know nothing, about football seem to be falling, as usual, into the dangerous habit of prophecy...