Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Fahnestock '08, R. M. Faulkner '09, E. F. Hanfstaengl '09, H. graduates, will be welcome to the dinner, though invitations will not be sent to every individual. The secretaries of the graduate classes will be asked to interest themselves and to let the members of their various classes know about the dinner. Special invitations are being sent to every Harvard Club in the country to send a delegate, so as to obtain a representative gathering of Harvard men. Two hundred tickets will be provisionally reserved for undergraduates, until it is known how many graduates wish to attend
Some facts, however, have geen gathered. We now know the name and occupation of his father, the parentage, name, and marriages of his mother, the place and date of his baptism, something of his education, his marriage, his emigration to America, his short ministry in Charlestown, his bequest to the infant College, and his early death. Of his brothers and sisters we know the names, and the dates of their deaths. From these a few other matters may safely be inferred; his Puritanism, for example, his feeble health, his interest in learning. Still other matters are conjectured by the author...
...Advocate's prose begins with some commonplace, and fortunately also common-sense, words of the editors to Freshmen. Then it rambles through Mr. Ford's "Varied Outlooks," which are so very varied that few readers will know what the author wishes them to see. It is better in Mr. Edward Sheldon's "Among Those Sailing." There are good things in the story; but the hero and heroine, probably unlike any lovers who ever lived that were worth their salt, stop in their mutual declaration of love to compare themselves with Mr. and Mrs. Browning. Mr. Rogers MacVeagh's "Anonymously Dedicated...
...know with what cordiality and eagerness our own representatives at Berlin University, Professor Peabody and Professor Richards, were received by the Emperor, the professors and the students, and with what intense interest and absorption large numbers of students have attended their lectures throughout the semester. It is most earnestly to be desired that Harvard men will not fall short of their brethren of Berlin University in intellectual hospitality and zeal to-learn from foreign masters...
...neither as policemen nor as spies. The government of students at Harvard is almost entirely in their own hands, and it is for the proctors to assist and lend a hand in this form of self government. In most cases the proctors are recent graduates, who know more about the college and college life than those of longer standing...