Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...view of the fact that a number of our undergraduates are strongly in favor of introducing at Harvard a system of scholarships to be awarded without regard to the pecuniary need of the students, it is important to know President Eliot's opinion on this matter...
...would at the same time expect the students to be prepared to answer questions that he might put to them during the recitation on the ground they had already gone over, making it a point to ask a few questions during each hour, and letting students know that they were marked on their answers, I think that nine tenths of those that now take History would make greater improvement, and find it easier to do faithful work than at present...
...Gaskill, '78, is trying to find money enough to get married on. Guess he won't succeed unless he employs more skill than usual, and refrains from gasing about it all the time. If we did not know him, we would lend him enough to tie the knot. We think we could borrow that much! Let your courage, wax - we were almost tempted to say something about waxing your mustache, but we remember...
...must always happen that, with no consideration of the "softness" of courses, some will be chosen by a larger number of students than others, since it is more useful to most fellows to know French than Sanscrit, and Latin than music. Keeping a man from an agreeable and popular course will never drive him into a difficult and unpopular elective, but into another course that will not probably do him as much good as the one he would have chosen had he been at liberty...
...have a racket court. It is obvious that it would be an additional inducement to exercise. And, during the months when the weather is too bad to be out, it would supply to a great extent the place of out-door sports. Those who are acquainted with rackets know what a fine game it is ; and if it is once introduced it is sure to be as popular as any sport we have. The very novelty of the game would insure its success at first, a success that its real worth would afterwards not fail in maintaining...