Word: know
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Coach Crane who was the first speaker said that he was disappointed in the results of the last two games, but that they were only stepping-stones to the Yale game when the University team would play their hardest and make Yale know that she had been through a real game. We are in a position now where we have everything to win and nothing to lose. Yale gave an example last Saturday of winning a game on pure "sand," and she also showed, in the first half that she can be beaten. Coach Crane expressed his gratitude...
Next Saturday Yale's renowned offence and Mr. Camp's skill will be opposed by a less impressive team developed by coaches of less experience. But the Harvard team is made up of strong players, and of fighters who will use everything they know to win a victory. Let the undergraduates do all that is in their power to assure the team that the University is behind them to a man, and that no one who is worth while will admit defeat any more than the players themselves...
...said that twenty-five years ago John Harvard was a mere name and that his history was unknown. Today we know intimately his own life, his parentage, and his surroundings...
...John Harvard's birth. As a child he must have been known to William Shakespeare. When John Harvard was 18, he lost his father and two brothers in the plague, and at the age of twenty, after his mother's third marriage, he went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. We know much of his life there, his teachers, the events of which he was a spectator, and above all, his friends, chief among whom was John Milton, one year his junior. There was a close friendship between the two young men during the five years of John Harvard's residence...
...have every confidence in the spirit of our men, and know that they will render such an account of themselves that all of you will be proud to have had them represent you. Yours, JOSHUA CRANE...