Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should not pronounce it "merely a collection of words indiscriminately thrown together." There is so good a point to the answer that we should be sorry to have the Student miss it merely from dulness, so try it again, and if you have to give it up let us know, and we'll send you the solution...
...ruler of the land said unto him, "I know thee not." And he scourged him, and cast him forth naked, and drove him from the dwellings of men and from the shores of the great river...
...these writers are so devoid of sense as not to know that such publications are very distasteful to students, they should be made aware of the fact by a more open expression of disapprobation, and by the exclusion of them from their college scenes and pleasures, of which no report at all is preferable to a travesty...
...Courant thinks that the necessity of bowing to college friends ought to be abolished. It says that a man whom you meet twenty times a day for a whole year knows that you know him; and it considers the convulsive nod and the sickly smile with which Yale men greet each other unnecessary and annoying...
...furniture which exerts such a debasing effect on the only great thing in us, set fire to the mass, and henceforth devote ourselves, body and soul, to our minds. By these rigorous methods, and by these methods only, can we hope to avoid the treacherous shoals that we now know are before...