Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Twenty-one men played on the Yale team which lined up as follows: Congdon, Overall, l.e.; Forbes, l.t.; Brides, Hockenberger, l.g.; Dunbar, Gillis, c.; Levine Erwin, r.g.; Foster, Bigelow, r.t.; Piggott, Alcott, r.e.; Dines, Jones, q.b.; Linn, Know, l.h.; Veeder, Morse, r.h.; Stuart, Roome...
...editorials handle adequately the inevitable and trite subjects of the opening year. The one entitled "Concerning Advice to Freshmen" is unusually clever; but it attempts to take the traditional Freshman away from us by asserting, in veiled language, that a Freshman may know almost as much as a Sophomore. This is unfair; the "verdant Freshman" has become a College tradition, and the Advocate is too respectable to break down wantonly so venerable a superstition. On the whole, the aim of the number is most commendable; it is only to be regretted that so many of our writers insist on following...
...surest road to success and distinction, every engineer should become master of one subject, however limited that may be. By the time he is 35 years old, he should know one subject better than anyone else. To do this he need not necessarily become narrow, for his sympathies can still be broad...
...have left myself no time to dwell upon the literary side of Professor Shaler's life, but have found an especial interest in one or two of his books. One of his most agreeable works is certainly that on "Domesticated Animals." It is full of personal observation and I know of no book 'more sure to enlarge the mind of a thoughtful boy or girl. A later book, to be greatly prized, is one whose rather inadequate title is "The Neighbor", and whose chapter. "The Problem of the African", while liable to some criticism in detail--as is almost everything...
...last time I met him he was anxious to know whether the researches of Bjerknes on the attractions of pulsating bodies might not throw light upon the mysterious force of gravitation; and in the discussion of these researches he showed that he had absorbed to a remarkable degree the knowledge of our time in regard to what was once called the Correlation of Forces, and which is now termed Transformation of Energy. I never left him without a mental stimulus which led me either to differ or reflect. His mind was like an electrical discharge in a tube of rarified...