Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Just how prevalent the spirit implied in that answer is, we do not know. If it is common to a considerable number of men, then there is something about our undergraduate institutions that is all wrong; something that needs to be well remodelled. If prospect of personal gain alone will make a man undergo the hard work of training for football, for baseball or for rowing, then it should be made impossible for a man to obtain the greater, the more coveted honors until well toward the close of his college career...
...reading magazines and new novels. He spoke further of the immense practical value it was to a man in starting out in life to be able to speak well and clearly, - with confidence and persuasion. If a man looks and speaks like a gentleman people will wish to know him - he has a place in life waiting for him. If he looks like a gentleman but does not speak like one no one will care to have anything to do with him. No one can follow a sweet, dignified speaker without a feeling of pleasure and sympathy...
...consequently no snap in the play. Worse, there can be no good practice, for a team cannot learn to play football by going through tricks and learning how they should line up without a second eleven to line up against. There are plenty of heavy and strong men, who know football, in Ninety-five and there are many more who can learn. It is a shame that a class of nearly four hundred can not take enough interest in its eleven to send out thirty...
...complex condition which they met; all were inconvenienced and not a few were disheartened. To do away with this state of things, a few members of the Faculty took the matter into hand and put their sympathy into definite form. They bethought themselves of what new students wanted to know, they gathered the needed information, and secured means for easily communicating it to students...
...forth, is not only a very difficult thing, calling for thought and practice, but an affair of conscience as well. Translating teaches us as nothing else can, not only that there is a best way, but that it is the only way. Those who have tried it know too well how easy it is to grasp the verbal meaning of a sentence or of a verse. That is the bird in the hand. The real meaning, the soul of it, that which makes it literature and not jargon, that is the bird in the bush which tantalizes and stimulates with...