Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...importance of attending it. Prize speaking is a matter of college interest, and should attract more than a handful of listeners. In other colleges it has a dignity and importance which it must lack here as long as empty benches are the only audience and no one cares to know who wins. It is to be hoped that Sanders Theatre will this year be well filled, especially if the contest can be in the evening, when the examinations and other diversions of the day are ended, and men are at leisure...
...Illinois Freshman has the reputation of having thus outwitted a pert Senior. Senior. "Do you know why our college is such a learned place?" Freshman. "Of course; the Freshmen all bring a little learning here, and as the Seniors never take any away, it naturally accumulates." - University Reporter...
...scholar will need, whatever line of study he may be pursuing. The works of Abu-1-Fazl and Mirza-Shafi, and the Arabic grammar of Muhammad bin Daud may not be of interest to the man of "general culture," - a phenomenon of which Harvard College, it is gratifying to know, is growing suspicious, - but they will certainly prove useful to the student of Turkish literature, and will be valuable to a scholar who intends travelling in the East...
DEAR SIR, - You said a little while ago that it was very kind of the Faculty to let us know so early when the dreadful examinations were coming. Do you suppose the Faculty would mind if I made a modest suggestion about the arrangement and order of the examinations? I once thought of calling on the President and telling him of it verbally, but some one said I need not be discovered if I wrote to your letter column; and I prefer to be incog, at any rate until I see whether the Faculty will adopt my plan...
...walking swiftly, was first by far; but the third, tall indeed and large as to his limbs, being left far behind, returned by a road, the shortest possible, among swamps and ditches; and the spectators with much laughter welcomed him climbing over the barrier; nor did any one know, what suffering, he did these things...