Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...freshmen hope to make a good showing in the game with the Yale freshmen, how are they going to do it, as things are now? The prime cause of all the trouble is that nobody has been appointed to coach the freshmen regularly. I understand from those competent to know what sort of material there is in the freshman class, that several experienced players have not been given a fair chance this whole spring. With a good coach such a mistake could not happen...
...know precisely how strong this feeling is and how much it will effect the policy of the University; but, against it, we wish to point out that the plan suggested would not be to the benefit of the students. No private enterprise could be expected to furnish board of the same quality and price as could a dining-hall run upon Memorial Hall principles. An element of profit would necessarity enter which must make the quality of the food lower or its price higher. It seems to us that one of the prime needs of Harvard is to make...
...there are any who intend to borrow caps and gowns from men who graduated last year, they are requested to inform the chairman of the Class Day Committee of the fact, as in no other way can the committee know how to carry out their plans as specified in the contract...
...that certain sequences are approved and others not. This difference of effect has until lately been almost entirely disregarded. And even now though many schools teach the proper method of utterance theoretically, yet it is so foreign to English modes that very rarely is a person found who knows anything about the quantitative pronunciation of Latin practically. Boys know that some syllables are long and others short, but what that difference means to the ear they can very feebly realize. But in a considerable part of the play this pronunciation is unavoidable and so the illustration of Latin verse gives...
...faith as something that can be accepted only by women and children. But they do not look deep enough. Is not the evidence which they do accept as satisfactory really based on faith? They accept the evidences of their senses, the dictates of their reason, but they do not know that these are true. They know nothing but that they exist. They have agreed, however, to put faith in their reason, because without it no progress can be made. This is even more true of religious faith. Absolutely no progress has been made by a people without religion. No civilized...