Word: know
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...regards the study of poetry three rules may be laid down. First, commit much to memory. Nothing will help us so much to understand why the poet has chosen each work and why he expresses himself as he does. Second, choose one master and study him; know him perfectly and understand his ways. Third, when you have learned what you can from one master, study others and compare them with your master...
...have heard from the football authorities that there is a certain questioning by the students of players and coachers with regard to the secret practice on Soldiers Field. This curiosity to know what is going on there is quite natural and is probably felt by everybody in the University. We would suggest, however, that from now on the students refrain from asking questions of anybody who is admitted to the secret practice and keep this curiosity in check till it can be fully satisfied on Saturday. There is nothing to be gained by asking questions. The only available news...
...will see that it is generally adopted. While it is true that dual leagues cannot be formed between the larger institutions and all the smaller ones it should be remembered that this does not interfere with games between them. Whether this plan will meet with general approval we know not; certain it is, however, that until some such plan is adopted this bickering, which sensible men look upon with so much regret, will continue to be the rule and not the exception...
...long ago a member of the Law School who was asked by some strangers where Austin Hall was situated, was forced to confess, after long and vigorous thought, that he did not know. This is an aggravated case of an ignorance concerning Harvard's equipment which is prevalent to a remarkable extent among the students. Many a man spends year after year here without learning the names, much less the internal arrangement and contents, of half the buildings which he passes time and time again. Especially is this the case with the various museums connected with the University...
...this ignorance affected only the men who possess it the evil would not be so great, but the matter does not stop there. In a man's intercourse with the outside world he must talk about his college life, and how can he talk intelligently if he does not know something of all the various phases of the life and of the equipment of the college? Every man in the University stands for the University and people will judge of the institution from the men who compose it. The man who is ignorant of any legitimate phase of the life...