Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...interest to the students at large and especially to those who room in Hollis, Holworthy and Stoughton to know the names of some of Harvard's noted graduates, and also to know where they roomed and when they graduated. A study of the old catalogues has revealed some facts on these points. It must not be understood, however, that the list of items following contains all the famous graduates in the last eighty years. It contains only some of those who roomed in the college yard. Several had rooms in Massachusetts which was formerly a dormitory...
...department. During the second half year the lectures on English Literature in English A, will be delivered on a different plan from that of former years. Heretofore the lectures have been given with little regard to chronology, and all that was required of a student was that he should know the qualities of an author's style, and his relative place in English Literature-not his position in the history of the times. But the English department has decided that some attention should be paid to chronology, and after this the lectures will be delivered in chronological order...
...will please write as soon as possible, letting me know whether you accept or decline this challenge. Hoping to hear favorably from you at an early date, I am, yours truly...
...homesteads along the James, by Charles Washington Coleman, are accompanied by most artistic and picturesque illustrations. A foreigner seeing them must wonder why Americans can complain at the lack of picturesqueness on their continent. But we who are to the manor born are not so easily deceived and know that the charming pictures in the current magazines contain more of the artist's self than of the scene he has pretended to copy...
...membership roll comprises the names of nearly one-half of the whole number of former students of the Law School, known to be living, and includes representatives from the classes of 1825, 1829 and from every class from 1831 to the present time. It is of interest to know that Henry Brown of Michigan, who has just been appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is a graduate of the school and one of the vice-presidents of the association. The Law School is represented on the Supreme Court of the United States by Chief Justice...