Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...four years of college. - (a) Our present system of preparation is radically bad. - (1) In primary education: Addresses and Proceedings of N. E. Assoc. of Colleges, Oct. 16, 1891. - (2) In the preparatory schools: D. C. Welles, Andover Rev. Jan. 1892. - (b) German and French boys know more than we require for entrance at a much younger...
...poor and the batting weak; in fact the playing, as a whole, was poorer than one would expect to see in a class game. The team went to pieces at critical moments and failed to pull together at all. Rand and Burgess were the only men who seemed to know how to play ball. The former played a good all-round game, while the latter, although making one error, which was excusable, made some beautiful catches in center field. Hayes in right let a hit go through his legs and then made such a poor throw that the base runner...
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND MR. PRESIDENT: I do not know whether you are aware of the fact, but tonight is an excellent example, that an actor enjoys nothing so much as a good round of applause. First, it shows that I am welcome, and secondly, it gives me a chance to think what I shall say next. I do not mean to say that I have come to address you unprepared, nor am I exactly like Mr. Lowell, who said he got off the best after dinner speeches he ever made, coming home...
...know. If such a revival should take place it might please us, and it might...
...following men who have consented to usher at Mr. Jefferson's address this evening must be at Sanders Theatre not later than ten minutes past seven, since it is absolutely necessary that they should know about the seats before the doors are opened: H. A. Bull '95, S. E. Johnson '95, W. R. Peabody '95, A. J. Peters '95, E. H. Warren '95, E. P. Williams '95; R. D. Wrenn '95, H. A. Addison '96, Alfred Borden '96, S. P. Delany '96, Charles Dickinson '96, H. Dibblee '96, J. A. Gade '96, M. G. Gonterman '96, H. S. Grew...