Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tickets for the Sophomore dinner will be put on sale this morning at Leavitt's and at the Union. Men are urged to purchase their tickets at once, as it is very important that the committee should know how many men will be present. Evening dress will not be worn. DINNER COMMITTEE...
...seems to me, therefore, if we are to give up the Statue exercises which we all know and have enjoyed, it should not be for similar exercises in the Stadium, just because we happen to have a Stadium, but for something of definite interest. If the Statue is really a dead issue and that fact can be proved, then the class should be asked to vote, not upon indefinite exercises in the Stadium, but upon a number of alternatives, such as: No exercises at all, the Yale baseball game on Class Day afternoon or outdoor theatricals in the semi-circular...
Members should know that the proper discharge of the duties of president requires from two to four hours a week and often more. To be efficient the president must make himself thoroughly familiar with the details of the purchasing, management, and finances of the Hall...
...literature will make them good engineers or lawyers or journalists. But such a view is wrong, for a knowledge of men is an essential to success as a knowledge of subjects. Dr. Abbott then showed that in almost all the professions a man, to be successful, must know and be interested in people. The success of the preacher lies in his ability to put himself at one with his congregation; the teacher must know not so much his subject as how to open the minds of his pupils and make them understand the truth; the journalist must know public sentiment...
...going about the study of men, it is first of all essential to see what is to be done; in the second place it must be done sympathetically and not critically. For it is axiomatic that it is impossible to change another man's point of view unless one knows and understands that point of view. Consequently, in trying to influence others one must interweave one's mind and interests, and even will, with the minds and interests and wills of others. To do this, it is necessary, in reading, to know the books and newspapers of the opposite side...