Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...inform us, by the easy means of these cards, whenever they have any items of news, or can put us on the track of any. Events of interest to the college at large are constantly coming to the knowledge of these men. It is impossible for us to know everything that is happening, and difficult to know just when to look for things that we expect. We ask men who have the means of knowing to communicate with us. With their cooperation we can get more news for the CRIMSON and make it more representative and more accurate...
...welcome change. The college is growing more and more modern in spirit. It long ago dropped Latin as a prescribed study, and no longer requires it even for admission. It seems almost an absurdity to hold the graduating exercises in a language the students are no longer obliged to know, and which the audience certainly do not understand readily. There is no apparent reason except custom for retaining Latin in the Commencement exercises, and the change of the language of the quinquennial catalogue leads us to hope that Latin may be abolished there also, this year...
...include Minnesota and all the states and territories west of the Mississippi and outside Missouri Arkansas, Texas, and California. The number of students from this region is only about fifty and in the majority of cases men from the distant and sparsely setted countries do not know a single soul at Harvard college, are ignorant of the habits and manners of the east, and frequently for the first year or two feel estranged from the whole world. An organization to welcome such men to Harvard and put them at their ease can do much goed. This is what the western...
There seems still to be doubt in the minds of several instructors as to the advisability of giving out the mid-year marks in their courses. We cannot see why this hesitation should exist. It is only just that men should be given a chance to know how they stand. Often a student finds it quite impossible to tell whether he is doing satisfactory work in lines of study entirely new to him. A man trying for honors, or a scholarship, also, is greatly handicapped by not knowing how an instructor regards his work. He may have failed to understand...
LOST.- On Monday, between Sever and Stoughton, a fountain pen. Will the finder please leave it at Leavitt and Pierce's, or let me know...