Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...difficulty of the reviewer's task nowadays. He must sit down, bent on honest criticism, which is the purpose of a review, and see continually flitting before him the vivid phantom of "precocity mated with the unreserve of a female infant." Deliver us from its clutches, for we know not what...
...tonight. By that time the event will loom up as a unique and irreplaceable occasion. The time necessary for a feeling of class unity to become vivid has not yet elapsed and sheer lack of stimulus may well account for many men neglecting the dinner. But the upper classes know that the Freshman Dinner is one of the last things they would omit from the varied experiences of their college career...
Professor Barzett Wendell, recently operated on for mastoiditis, has returned to his home at 358 Marlboro street, Boston, and is at present resting comfortably. His condition is very much improved, but after so serious an operation a complete recovery will take many weeks. Professor Wendell does not yet know whether he will be able to resume his college work again this year...
...entered the office of President of the University, Harvard College graduated one hundred and eleven men, and the other departments combined, one hundred and sixty-four; when he retired in 1909, a thousand degrees were granted each Commencement. His activity in public and educational service since then we know better. It is the half a lifetime devoted to the University from its presidential chair that should be recalled and honored on his eightieth birthday...
...printed here) presented to the Board of Overseers at its last meeting. Here we find the statements of thirty-four separate official departments, from that of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to that of the Medical School Bureau of Appointments. It would be well for those who know only their own department, or at the most their own and two or three others, to ponder on the fact that the official work of the University is divided into thirty-four branches, of which the College is only one; and then to think of the multitudinous student activities, formal...