Word: knowes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These unearthly creatures burrow into the dark recesses under, above, behind the visible serenity of the place, and turn switches, open and shut valves, carry around bulky objects and do all manner of queer things. They seem to know what they are doing, and there must be some system or order to their efforts, for the results are surprising...
...valuable if it suggests to its victim preferable methods of preparing the subject at hand. An examination late in December is a thinly disguised but supposedly necessary turnstile to force men to supply themselves with credentials before they enter the Reading Period. Those who have been there before, and know the amount of required or suggested study that fetters the period should be little inclined to let course work overlap. But if in the light of human nature this examination is inescapable; and if in the light of educational tradition its November predecessor is desirable: such allowable conservatism still does...
Censorship, it was felt, is merely a worse situation than that of the existing press trust in America. In commenting upon typical American news papers, it was offered by one delegate that there are those to know and those to "know of" in which latter category were mentioned the Hearst combines and the Boston American as its local representative...
...their status as background or sources. An understanding of these rich stores of artistic symbolism will deepen the meaning of the carved or painted subject for the student. There have been men who could explain the significance of Judith and Holofernes in oil or marble, who did not know, to borrow sporting parlance, what league these principals played...
Summa Summarum, though a man may know Shakespeare note by note, and can get a summa for it, why must he be inflicted on Phi Beta Kappa--the organization is notoriously weak...