Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...alive, if our hopes, ambitions and affections are set in the right way. Examples are before us constantly of men who have had this resurrection-men pure, and leading lives of courage and usefulness. We may in a way understand the nobleness of their lives, but we cannot really know the broadness of the vista which opens before them if we be not ourselves alive. If we are to understand the immortality of the soul we must have it. And after attaining it, we must light others to this way of life, this undying and eternal existence...
...heartily glad of this. If in the opinion of the faculty, who, as we have insisted, should have the controlling voice in matters of student government, reporting every morning is inadvisble, the Overseers could do nothing wiser than to agree. The Faculty, from virtue of its position, know thoroughly the needs of the students under them. It is a matter of great congratulation that this unnecessary and retrograde clause of the late recommendations has not carried through...
...freshman crew. Of course, this is merely an opinion, but it is founded on several years' observation and experience in my own class crew, which met with some success; that opinion has also been strengthened by talks with prominent Yale rowing men, who may be presumed to know what they were talking about...
...constitution of the Camera club, each new member must be proposed and vouched for by some member, it seems to us that there are many men who are desirous of joining the club but who are kept from doing so by the fact that they do not know any present member to propose them...
...last evening to hear Professor A. A. Ripley lecture on "Goethe as Autobiographer." Germany, Professor Ripley said, now enjoys a national life and has a deep and dignified national literature, in which Goethe stands supreme. We must become acquainted with Goethe as a man, however, that we may know his true worth. With a view to the study of Goethe's life and works the Goethe society was organized. This society is engaged particularly in examining the manuscripts of Goethe, which, owing to the extinction of his family, have come into the possession of the German government. The light which...