Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...morrow he might perhaps say something in response to the heavy idea of the toast. If pleasures unexpected were twice welcome, so indeed were distinctions and honors, and of them he had just tasted. Coming there, an interested and sympathetic auditor of their exercises, he did not know that an honored degree of the University was to be bestowed upon so unworthy a person as himself. But the less his merit the greater their bounty, and thus could they measure what was due to them by their generosity to him. The name and fame of fair Harvard were not theirs...
...reading Horace, are you?" said be, "I should like to have you read some to me; I really do not know how they teach it now. Diana, my dear, fetch me the Odes of Horace...
...played to me, I don't know how long; but presently a clock struck, and she stopped in the middle of her pieee...
...Really, I did n't know it was so late," said she "you must go now, but we 'll always be very glad to see you. You must excuse my father's ways; but he is very old, and is still a schoolmaster, though he teaches school no longer...
...Whole Duty of Man," have been greatly distressed this year because our papers have given up so much space to matters relating to Memorial Hall, and the Yale papers even have failed to find interesting some of our discussions on the commons. These papers probably do not know how great an institution our Dining Association is, and how intimately the students are connected with its management. They do not know that the Hall, which in a year does a business as great as the largest hotel, is altogether in the hands of the students; consequently they cannot appreciate that...