Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Gott's orchestra, which furnished the music, played during the dinner, while the class sang any of the songs which they happened to know. Between the courses, the Glee Club sang Johnny Harvard, Sneider's Band, and other songs, while solos by E. M. Waterhouse and H. W. Howe were repeatedly encoured...
...course of lectures on Greek Philosophy last evening in the Fogg Museum. After giving a brief resume of his last lecture, he spoke of the great intellectural movement which began with Socrates, who was born in 469 B. C. The great philosopher left no writing whatever. We know him only through the unreliable memoirs of Xenophon, and the somewhat erratic dialogues of Plato...
Although Socrates was the father of many philosophies he had no system of his own. He taught the philosophy of philosophy. Taking for his motto the words "Know Thyself," he relentlessly showed up the ignorance of man, believing that it was the greatest obstacle to human knowledge. He said that the only real good was knowledge; the only real evil, ignorance. He taught the foundations of the modern system of reasoning by induction and deduction...
...SCAIFE, Sec.FRESHMAN BANJO CLUB.- Rehearsal Tuesday evening 7.30. All must know "Handicap March...
...certain not only to be exceedingly entertaining but also of great value. Few members of the University have any real acquaintance with the history of Harvard during the last forty years. Every one of course is familiar with the great events that have marked that period, but very few know well the story of the gradual changes that have taken place as the horizon of the College has widened, both as regards the student life and the government of the University. The men that have been chosen to speak on the last three decades of Harvard's history...