Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...found that the doors are closed at ten o'clock by the yard policeman, who states that the hour might be extended to eleven o'clock without any added inconvenience, that is as far as the mere closing is concerned. Unless, then, there are other reasons we do not know of, it would seem that the students might be given the privilege of an extra hour for their work. There are many good reasons why it is not always convenient to work early in the evening. If a man begins his study at all late, he seldom has time enough...
FRESHMAN NINE. - All candidates must be in the cage dressed for practice at 4.10, sharp. Anyone who finds it necessary to be absent from practice must let me know at 31 Thayer, before...
...refused to meet the University of Pennsylvania on any but an undergraduate basis, she must impose the same restrictions upon Harvard. She apparently intends, then, to arrange baseball games with undergraduate teams only. This involves a principle which ought consistently to apply to other forms of athletics. But we know that the various teams at the inter-collegiate meeting this spring will, by a vote of the association, be teams composed in part of graduates. Will Princeton, then, following her present line of argument, drop out of the intercollegiate games and thus prove conclusively the sincerity of her reasoning...
...Church of the Advent, Boston, addressed the St. Paul's Society last night in the Society room. He said: Today is the feast of St. Matthias, the apostle chosen to fill the place of Judas. In the study of Mathias we have almost nothing to guide us, we know only that it was he whom God chose to be his apostle. This alone shows that he must have been a man who had been with Christ and had known him, who was full of religious zeal and who was ready to sacrifice himself. Zeal and self sacrifice...
...have no aim in life but are indifferent to all surroundings. In such a life a business would become a pleasure. Among the most disinteresting persons are those who seek nothing but pleasures; these then avoid the law; they become the most uncomfortable and most unhappy persons we know...