Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vocation chosen by a young man is governed oftener by accident than inclination. But the manner in which it is pursued is controlled neither by luck nor chance. The liberal professions are crowded with incompetents. I know ministers who should be palace car conductors, poor lawyers who would have been good drummers or clerks, and medical men who are more dangerous to their patients than the diseases they treat, who were destined by nature for the farm or the factory. The world is a workshop full of misfits, and misfits are always cheap. It requires both faculty and courage, when...
...strong demand for education in this particular field. The real basis of the antagonism is clearly seen by the second writer. College men thrown suddenly into the world cannot well picture that world, until they grow to be thoroughly acquainted with it. No matter how much a man may know of history and political economy, he cannot succeed in the active life of journalism until he becomes practical...
...police force, then we must suffer, for apparently we shall get no help elsewhere. But if a few determined men would get together and make up their minds not to allow the nuisance to go further, the Cambridge "muckers" and other objection-able characters would soon learn to know their natural sphere and to remain there...
...cricket eleven plays the Longwood team on Holmes Field. This is the first cricket match that has been played on the college grounds for several years and an excellent opportunity of seeing how the game is played will be offered to those who know nothing of it and a chance to see a well contested match will be given to those who know the "points." We are very glad that the management of the eleven has been able to arrange a game in Cambridge, and strongly urge every one who can, to see the match. Cricket has struggled bravely...
...operation of the students. the committee cannot form a clear idea of the state of athletics and of physical exercise in the college. This is a matter which deeply concerns the welfare of the University, and in which instructors and students alike have an interest. The committee wish to know what are the habits of exercise and the opinions of students of every sort; of those who take no active part in athletics, or do not exercise at all, as well as of those who witness, support, or enter athletic contests. If even a small percentage of students fail...