Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...undergraduates are obliged to buy them at the book shops. We believe the University is working against its own interest here. Its catalogue is one of its best advertisements, and one that, at a small cost, might be made to reach and influence many more who do not know of the opportunities offered by Harvard...
...Cambridge to get out as large a number of men as possible and to devote attention to the second and third rate performers as well as to the stars. Since the formation of the dual league Yale's feeling has been much the same with the result that we know only too well...
...Latin in our colleges ought to be grateful to Dr. H. W. Hayley of Harvard for having provided them with a singularly clear and useful 'Introduction to the Verse of Terence.' In the compass of 25 pages the undergraduate can here find about all that he needs to know of the metrical construction of this poet. * * * * Dr. Hayley's modesty disclaims anything in the way of originality, but there are several places (notably his treatment of the fifth foot of the senarius) where he has discovered how to make clear brief statements of facts in matters where there has hitherto...
...insisted, was a practical illustration of the theory of the survival of the fittest; that man will always reach the top of the ladder who is best able to adapt himself to the requirements of whatever position may offer. It does not depend upon how much he may know, but upon how much of his knowledge he can make of use to himself...
...know who are the furnishers of all this interesting information. It is scarcely possible that they are college men. But it does seem a shame that so much should go out to give the impression that the English language is quite forgotten in our colleges...