Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rooms, that we are reluctant to rake up the subject. But occasionally, after one's brain has been dulled by the suffocating air of a close room or racked with fears of pneumonia and bronchitis, it is impossible to keep down a feeling of mingled indignation and despair. We know that it is no easy matter for the University authorities to remedy the evil; that improvements cost money; that the University is cramped for funds which may be applied to such purposes; and finally, that the best of ventilating appliances is apt to prove unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, on the principle that...
...Economics is so apparent that it seems all the greater pity that there should be any abuse of privileges. In almost every such course there are some men who will go out of their way to argue a point with the instructor even when it seems that they must know they are in the wrong. While these little off-hand debates may be a source of the greatest pleasure to the men who seek to promote them, they are generally far from such to the class as a whole...
...more reason that when an opportunity is given to watch the play there should be a great many present. It is a pity that "three times three" are not called for once in a while on Soldiers Field. It is doubtful if many of the first-year men know what the Harvard cheer...
...there be any who think there is no chance of making the crew over the men who are now in training, they should know that these men have been taken merely on trial and stand no better chance than those who have never rowed...
...knowledge of military law is indispensable to a man who commands militia. For instance, he must know when he may, or may not, with inpunity order his company to fire upon a mob. The lectures will sometimes be illustrated by stereopticon views, some of which will be from pictures taken in the Civil...