Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Exactly what form the permanent arrangement would take we do not know. The chief thing asked by the students would be that the social life be not seriously disturbed. If the arrangement were to be permanent, we should think it unjust to keep general tables. All should be made the same. To have club tables with one man to one seat is the ideal arrangement which we wish might be kept but which we are convinced cannot be. When different men suggest seventeen, eighteen, nineteen or twenty-two men at tables of fourteen seats, they simply express the limit...
...Haven that the finishing touches are now being put on Vanderbilt, White and Berkeley Halls at Yale. The list of prices for the new rooms has not yet appeared but it will be out within the next month. It is stated by one who is in a position to know that the prices of the Vanderbilt rooms are to be the highest on record at Yale. The average price of the rooms in this new hall will be $10 per week. There are sixty-nine rooms in Vanderbilt and there are thirty-six weeks in the three terms...
...many of us know, Frederick Douglass is to be in Boston in a few days, and is expected to speak in the People's Church...
...matter of water and general rowing facilities, there is no comparison. The Oxford and Cambridge courses are to those of Harvard and Yale, or any other of the American university courses of which I know anything, as the (about) fifty-foot creek at Princeton is to the Charles River on which Harvard rows. The Isis at Oxford will average about as wide as a length and a half of a shell. The Cam at Cambridge is much narrower, so much so that two eight-oars can pass in safety only by each paddling very slowly. There are some parts...
...mean to inmply that we have knowledge that some one is trembling on the verge of probation; the standing of the men is something the knowledge of which belongs strictly to the men themselves and about which we know nothing. We speak of the matter simply because the temptation is strong for freshman athletes to disegard college work until they find themselves in a position from which there is no recovery. It is a provoking carelessness which is regretted immensely by the men themselves after the harm has resulted, and we caution the men on the nine and the crew...