Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...some cheap frame boarding house. After these new buildings are initiated it will no longer be possible to tell the old story of the Harvard professor who accosted a wistful Freshman and asked if he were looking for some one. "Not I," was the apocryphal response; "I don't know anybody this side of the Rockies...
...sure, wish they might go to College all over again, not only because of the quiet of these groups, which ought speedily to have a genuine academic atmosphere, with their fine lawns, their flower-beds, and their new-planted ivy; but because of the opportunity to meet and know all sorts and conditions of men from all quarters of the United States, and daily to break bread with them...
...great many Harvard graduates who are occupying positions of responsibility in business enterprise will be interested to know of the remarkable progress which has been made by the University's Bureau of Business Research. This Bureau was established by the Graduate School of Business Administration in 1911 to gather, to classify, and to describe facts about business. The Business School teaches business and is developing principles behind business practice. The Law School had decades of precedents in printed volumes. The Medical School had hospitals and laboratories. Real information about business, not gossip and proverbs, but facts--such as records...
...precise average opinion of any student group, especially if it be as large as Harvard's, is always difficult to know. What the leaders desire they find ways of voicing, and it is with their forth reaching views that the public is always most interested. Consequently it is significant that the university's daily paper is urging the administration to action that will bring the institution into line win the Institute of Technology in evident willingness to enter into formal relations with the commonwealth, Harvard acting as an advisory agency. To be sure Tech's plan is far from worked...
...teaching of the classic languages nowadays is merely the result of a heritage, a tradition, begun back in mediaeval times, when what teaching there was existed in church schools only, in which Latin was the official languages. We all know what it meant, some centuries ago, to have even the slightest education. If a man could translate a little Latin into his mother tongue, he could not be tried by a civil court for any crime. He could claim "benefit of clergy" and be tried in an ecclesiastical court--and the ecclesiastical court was very likely to pardon...