Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...senior dinner will be held on Monday, June 26. This dinner will be free, and every man in the class is expected to come. No dress suits. The place will be announced later. As the committee have to know just how many to expect, men are asked to sign the blue book at Leavitt...
...title reads: "First Editions of American Authors. A Manual for Book Lovers" and this explains its whole scope. It is not a book which will interest the generality of readers but among bibliophiles it promises to be of no little importance. Until the present time. - so far as we know - there has been no exhaustive bibliography of American first editions; this volume therefore fills a vacancy and it is not inappropriate that it should come during this Columbian year. Herbert Stuart Stone '94 is the compiler and the book contains an attractive and amusing introduction by Eugene Field, the western...
...Since then the training has been much better, but not up to the standard which is required. Whether or not the erratic playing of the nine has been caused by this loose system of training, is a question which the men themselves can best answer, for they only know just to what excess they have carried it. However this may be, it is unpardonable that any man should jeopardize the chances of victory by his own private conduct. The principle at stake is one, the justice of which every fair minded person will admit. A man owes...
Stronger efforts should be made by the graduates of both schools who are here in college to interest in Harvard their former school mates. Men in a preparatory school know singularly little about the colleges for which they are fitting, to say nothing of colleges for which they are not sitting, There is an excellent chance for some loyal graduates to do good work, not only for Harvard, but for Phillips Exeter and Phillips Andover themselves by using their personal influence among the students to interest and instruct them in the advantages which Harvard offers. Yet there is another...
...they might be. "The Platypus" by Sidney Dickinson is the description of a peculiar animal found in Australia. It is interesting though perhaps a little technical, and is very well illustrated. "De Profundis" by Anne Reeve Aldrich is a clever and pretty piece of poetry. "The One I Know Best of All" is dull and full of detail. It is certainly not up to the former works of the author, Mrs. Burnett...