Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spirit which gives us "Feb. 22, Sunday, Washington's Birthday; a holiday," is the announcement that the Law and Divinity Schools will have one whole day for a holiday in addition to the Sunday which the rest of us are to enjoy. It is a great comfort to know that there are in the University some departments which know what a holiday is and how it should be observed. We congratulate the students in the Law and Divinity Schools on their good fortune...
...President Bumstead of Atlanta University was also with him during his sickness. Young himself was a remarkably well developed man; he had the fortune to combine great physical strength with mental qualities of an exceedingly high stamp. He will be deeply missed by all who were fortunate enough to know...
...would be interesting to know to what the success of the Israelites in solving the great problem was due. The rigidity of their national feeling doubtless taught them to think no other god but theirs necessary for the world. Yet they do not seem in the beginning to have questioned that the god of the Ammonites ruled in his own territory, and whenever occasion offered they themselves fell to worshiping the deities of the neighboring peoples. It is only by gradual evolution that the Israelites became monotheists, and we are driven in the last resort to account for their final...
...help of the grauate advisory committee. This committee is chosen, not by the athletic committee,- as the college seems to believe,- but by the Athletic Association itself. The Athletic Association, in its own free choice of the members of this committee, has been able to get men which, it knows, are experienced and sound of judgment. These men, then, all of them noted athletes in their day, will work for the best interests of the association. They know full well that Harvard must meet Yale in track athletics as in other sports. The athletic committee is influenced very greatly...
When the sum of over $32,000 is spent on athletics at Harvard, there is a very natural desire on the part of all those in any way interested to know where the money comes from and for what it is spent. In order to have some responsible person to control this great fund, a graduate treasurer was last year appointed for the purpose not of taking direct charge of all the receipts and expenses of the various teams, but to have a general supervision of all the accounts and receive whatever surplus remains at the end of the year...