Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...status whatever as an authority. In fact, were it not for the injustice to the individual Harvard men whose names appear there in the issue of October 2 we should not care to pay any attention to the matter. Injustice has been done, however, as Mr. Whitney would know if he had been able to give the charges a more thorough investigation. It is unnecessary to go into details. Every man on the list who is still connected with the College in any way has kept during the summer the Harvard rules, and acted according to the policy...
...Whitney can surely do much to obtain this college support by personal application. He knows or ought to know, that the Harvard Athletic Committee is working for the same ends as he, and every whit as earnestly as he. Yet he has attacked individuals under the committee's jurisdiction, without giving them a chance to speak for themselves. The course he has thus taken runs the risk of error, and it tends very strongly to cause such distrust and illfeeling as to destroy the influence which he might exert as the ally of the conservative movement in the colleges toward...
...like to know that you can have your shoes repaired in one day at Newman the Shoeman's Store...
...therefore, bear in mind that they are here not merely to get what they can out of the University, but, no less, to do what they can for the University, and that by doing so they will acquire a capacity for friendship, and a power to sympathize with and know other men, which will be of immense practical value to them in the future...
...voices that breathe beneath the vaulted roof of the vestibule behind me, voices of men in their early twenties could speak, I think they would say: "Be not too slow to put on the responsibilities of manhood." I know that youth is a time of happiness, but I think you will find that the happiness of manhood is the real happiness of life. Put zeal and vigor into your work, as did those young soldiers who won fame for Harvard University and bequeathed their names...