Word: know
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...attendance at the House Committee meetings has been excellent and I know of no members who have made it "a business, of staying away." All the work to be done was transacted willingly and promptly and much has been accomplished. More entertainments have been provided this year than ever before, and everything in the power of the committee has been done to increase the membership and make the Union more attractive. If anything is to be deplored in the administration it is the miserably small membership. As the Union is practically dependant for its support on the size...
...have held firm from the first that teacher and student alike grow strong through freedom. Working eagerly with you and for you are men whose beliefs, whether in education or in religion, differ widely from your own, yet who know that in speaking out their beliefs they are not more loyal to themselves than to you. By your faith in a young man's use of intellectual and spiritual freedom you have given new dignity to the life of the College student...
...Last night I chanced to open the door of my house to a ring. I was close to the door, and a young man handed in a note. Characteristically, I did not know him. That is, I did not recognize him, although I had dined with him the night before and had talked with him many times within the last month. But it was rather dark in the door and I did not recognize him. But when I opened the note and read a statement made on behalf of the Senior class I perceived that the messenger at the door...
...equally productive of strife. In the case of a national boundary or a racial difference, a part of the responsibility may be laid upon nature, though even a national boundary ceases to be the scene of conflict in proportion as the members of the separated groups come to know one another through travel and commerce. Mutual intercourse tends to bridge the gap which nature established, and consequently to remove the cause of international conflict...
Modern industrial conditions have created a social gap by grouping numbers of men as employees in large industrial establishments, cut off from knowledge of their employers and from acquaintance with them. It is seldom that the owners of such establishments know their own employees, or are known by them. Under such conditions it is as natural that there should be jealousies and misunderstandings between the groups thus separated as it is that there should be sectional and international jealousies where there is little mutual intercourse and acquaintance. It is toward the closing up of this social gap that all effective...