Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...here assume that there is such a thing as truth. There are two dogmas-absolutism and empiricism. The absolutists say that we can know when we know truth; the empiricists believe that we cannot know when we have grasped the truth. If a thing admits of no doubt it is because the intellect is illumined beyond question. We all feel that of some things we are certain. To this extent we are absolutists. Since we are absolutists by nature, we should believe the empiricist theory, and go on this basis. For nothing has ever been accepted as certain until...
Individually the work of the men was not so very bad, but in team play they were lamentably weak. Several times on infield flies and high fouls the ball was missed, because the men after it did not know which man was to catch the ball. Once three men could have caught a foul, but it fell uncaught because of the confusion caused by the other players calling upon the different men to catch it. This ought never to happen again. The players ought to understand that it is the captain's place to call out who is to take...
...trouble seems to be that some men who believe they will not row very often think they will row those few times without paying any fees. Some men are able to elude the vigilance of the janitor and his assistant, neither of whom know all the members by sight. No member has a right to take out friends who are not members...
...football squad, consisting of about thirty men, has been out practicing daily for the past week. Most of the men have never played on a class team before and know very little about the game. Captain Wrightington, Doucette, Merriman, F. Shaw and Tiffany have been coaching the men in the fundamental principles of blocking, breaking through, tackling and kicking and catching punts. A short game has been played at the close of the practice each day, lasting from five to seven minutes. Yesterday afternoon, Fairbank and Farley of this year's freshman football team came out for the first time...
...very effective. A coxswain cannot see the faults of the men in the bow without upsetting the trim of the boat. The only men he can criticise to advantage are stroke and seven. He can tell perhaps that the boat is not going as it should, but he cannot know who is at fault. What is wanted is a thorough oarsman to coach the men regularly from some position outside of the boat. The first few weeks on the river is an important time in the training of a crew, and it is then that it needs especially regular systematic...