Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...warlike "preservers of peace" who made the assanlt yesterday should be held to account for their actions; and, that they may be, attention is called to the notice in another column for a meeting of those who know the numbers of any of the offending policemen...
...another column on some of Harvard's social conditions contains, it must be admitted, much truth. The most of us are agreed in believing that serious evils exist in the undergraduate social life. One part of a class, even in its fourth year in the University, does not know nor care about the other half. "Cliques" and "sets" do exist; at every election of Class Day Officers there is a fight between "society" and "non-society" men; and there is an atmosphere of false formality and false dignity which old graduates tell us is not to be found...
...through with the natural enthusiasm of youth, or because it is foolish for such men to express their opinions? Why are we "supposedly unpolitical Harvard men"? Does the Advocate claim that centres of learning such as this University should not exert influence in public life? Does not the writer know the effect which universities have had in the development of European history, every one from Oxford to Salamanca? Does he not know that popular government is sinking under such corruption as is exhibited in the municipalities of this country because universities, and what they stand for, do not exert...
...closing, Professor Dorpfeld called attention to the remarkable correspondence between what we know Tiryns and Mycenae to have been and Homer's description of the palaces of heroic times, and confirmed the truth of the comparison by certain conspicuous and convincing examples. This fact is of importance in determining the date of the Homeric poems. They belong to the same age with Tiryns and Mycenae, and are not the creation of a poet's fancy, but trustworthy descriptions of the life and art of the Heroic...
...should go in to the chess tournament, if Harvard is to keep the cup. As all members of the University may enter, and as the entrance fee is only fifty cents, there seems to be no reasonable excuse for the present lack of interest in the matter. All who know the moves are therefore again urged to enter; and it should be understood that even the weakest players may, in the process of their own instruction, help in a passive way the efforts of the stronger...