Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There was once an athletic meeting that happened to attend which commenced on time. A new organization managed it, their first attempt, and probably they didn't know any better. But it does seem a pity that our annual class races cannot get started inside of two hours behind the time set. If experience teaches that the boats can't be got off before half past five why not announce that hour? As it regularly has been everybody goes at four o'clock, fearing the possibility that by accident the race may start on time, and must wait an hour...
YESTERDAY a portion of the Mott Haven team went to the training table; from time to time additional men will be taken as they prove their right to the honor. This really marks the beginning of the training of the team, although as we all know the squads have been working faithfully since the Christmas vacation. The almost unparalleled success which Harvard has met with in track athletics during the last fourteen or fifteen years has a tendency to inspire over confidence, a misfortune the evil consequences of which we may some day bitterly realize. Just why we have...
...some interest to know on what school teams these men have played before entering college. One of the number never played on any team before, but the other men and the teams on which they played are as follows...
...from Professor Bartlett, Regent of the University, in regard to the extent of the illness in college will be reassuring to parents who have received exaggerated accounts of the prevalence of disease in Cambridge. Although there has been no general alarm among the students themselves, it is gratifying to know that the college authorities are taking proper precautions against the spread of illness of any kind. In a place like this where men are constantly being thrown in contact with each other, it would be a simple matter for a single person to expose many others to a disease which...
Always loving, reliable, and true, Dr. Peabody lent a helping hand to hundreds of whom the world will never know. He lived for others and for God Himself; and surely there is no success like that with which his life was crowned...