Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard's play, though decidedly stronger than it has been in many respects, was very much lacking in team work. In the first hall the interference was very poor and all the rush-line were slow. The men showed the need of more individual coaching. They will have to know the capabilities of their positions more thoroughly before they can be expected to develop a strong team game...
...Reason in the sky and stars and earth Man can interfere, for evil or for good, with the work of physical forces, no changing their law but bringing them into new combinations. We must therefore try to understand man's nature. As a first step we must learn to know inferior living things. Plants and animals should be studied in their tree life is the woods and fields. All men can have some practical knowledge of this wild life. In the scientific study of life we must move very cautiously, take careful teachers of special sciences, and not popular fashions...
There are probably very few college men who have not read more or less of Alexandre Dumas fils. All those who know his work and the few who from lack of opportunity or from hyper-prudishness are not familiar with it will find Mr. Jefferson B. Fletcher's critical article on this great French writer (which, by the way, occupies the place of honor) an interesting and just piece of work. He gives a short sketch of Dumas's early life and of the conditions which were largely instrumental in shaping his character, and then he goes on to discuss...
...life. Create a true church of Christ in your own home and among your friends. Go on in the same quiet way, and when you die, your work will not all follow you, but will go on broadening and deepening how far and how long you will not know till the harvest of souls shall all be gathered...
...mind as well as body into the work; and he solved the knotty questions in Harvard boating. He introduced system into the work of the crew; he worked out the problem of an effective stroke; he found exactly the right man for coach and he had the sense to know it and have faith in him. Altogether his services to boating here cannot be overestimated, and it is no wonder the college hates to see him retire from active service. There is but one consolation for his loss as captain and member of the crew; we do not lose...