Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...waved his arms, and said he believed, apropos of the time-honored legend of Semitic 12 at Harvard, that a chance half-dozen college men could not answer offhand the question, "Who was Jehovah?" We asked a chance half-dozen, and only four of them answered, "I don't know," and our pride limped away. Now perhaps this is not a fair question; perhaps, however, Mr. Johnson speaks the truth. Recalling Mr. Stover's psychology on various occasions, we are inclined to lift an eyebrow and doubt if Mr. Johnson sees below the surface, and to chide him for using...
What President Lowell of Harvard says of college democracy is worth repeating because it is true of all American colleges, so far as we know, and because the contrary is ignorantly believed by some folks...
...make conditions to which parents willingly commit their sons. The University is only meeting its fair share of the mutual obligations in offering the services of its staff to help in the improvement of the conditions under which both it and the city must live. It is gratifying to know that these services are strengthening the bonds of good feeling...
...however stimulating this game may be, we know of many men who go to the Gymnasium to bowl. A little money spent on these alloys now would improve a most inadequate equipment and not necessarily delay the hoped-for New Gymnasium...
...first point, it may be dismissed without argument. All Harvard men, as well as outsiders familiar with Harvard athletics, know that such exhibitions of "near muckerism" are not frequent in our annals. Those that have occurred have met with instant condemnation...