Word: know
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1910-1919
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Before the end of the year, the University proposes to make certain changes in its system of concentration and distribution. Just how extensive the contemplated modifications are, we do not know, but it is not impossible that when the leaders of the Faculty discuss the situation, their reforms may be almost as revolutionary as those at Yale...
...keenly felt as to be a problem. The Stadium is doubtless a fitting place for a part of the Class Day exercises but for Commencement it is in every way unsuited. No other place is at present adequate. So great has been the exclusion from recent Commencements that few know what the exercises consist of. Parents, graduates and undergraduates might be brought closer together in academic feeling by the unifying effect of great assemblages representing all branches of a great University. Such gatherings should be possible at any time in the year. Men at times visit the University whom...
...Literature at the University will open the exhibition this afternoon with a speech. To that charm of manner which used to make even a discussion of sand-bagged parapets attractive a year ago, Captain Morize now adds a very complete knowledge of the field of French art, and will know and feel whereof he speaks. As usual, we are confident that Captain Morize's talk will be well attended by undergraduates...
There are few words more obnoxious to the average undergraduate than "compulsory"; it brings up visions of compulsory chapel, oral examinations, concentration and distribution and other features of Cambridge life which we would like to avoid--although we may at heart know some of them to be valuable. There has been a time when the cry against the possibility of compulsory exercise was loud and long, but we have come to believe that a partial adoption of this system is the one way to further the bodily development of the college...
...Congress is in no frame of mind to take action on this bill at the present time," continued Mr. Forbes, "and I very much doubt as to its action on the matter. I know, however, that Congress will give the bill due consideration...