Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this mode of treatment which calls out the best actions from students. It is a pleasure to know that men in the Faculty are sincerely sympathetic; it is a great pleasure to know that they believe in the worth of student judgement and their powers of control...
...train regularly through the examination period and it is next to impossible for an athlete to do himself justice after all the hard work he must do and the late hours he must keep in order to be well prepared in his courses. We do not know whether or not this point has ever been called to the attention of the managers of the games, but we hope that by another year the date may be changed...
...writer in the Graduates' Magazine for December deplores the undergraduate's ignorance of the "venerable associations" which cluster around the University. "How many of the students" he asks, "know when Hollis and Stoughton, and Holworthy were built, or what the men did for whom they were named? . . . How many can tell, off-hand, where John Harvard died? Do they ever realize that British troops were quartered in Massachusetts and Harvard, that Washington probably visited those buildings many times, that Lafayette was received by President Kirkland on the steps of University? . . . Certainly much interest and charm, and much stimulus to high...
There is no doubt but that the greater part of us know all too little about Harvard,-and particularly about her past. Such a series of lectures as is suggested would not only "increase the affection of the undergraduate for his Alma Mater." It would give us all a better chance to learn some of the stories with which every one of us should be familiar, and ignorance of which must many times in after life prove a source of mortification and regret...
...Trilby," said Mr. Copeland, is full of the charm of novelty. In it all conventionalities are thrown aside. Du Maurier defies in one half page all the rules of syntax and most of the rules of rhetoric. He does know of the periodic sentence. The book is not written, it is talked, and Mr. Henry James has said of it, that it is not even talked, it is smoked. Taffy, the Laird, and Little Billee are types, not individuals, but the close feeling of friendship, amounting almost to brotherhood, is masterfully drawn. The test of an imaginative work...