Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...meet the need of persons interested in plants who wish to know when particular trees and shrubs in the Arnold Arboretum are in bloom, it is proposed to issue from time to time bulletins of popular information, in which attention will be called to the flowering of important plants and other matters connected with them. During the spring and autumn these bulletins will probably be issued every Saturday, and from time to time during the remainder of the year when the necessity for them exists; and in them notice will seeing during the following week...
There are one hundred and sixty foreigners in the University--the pick of thirty-six nations. They have come for the particular purpose of knowing us; how many of them do we know? Their very presence proves that we have a reputation for friendliness to maintain. But the average undergraduate is doing very little, if anything, to maintain it. There are organizations which we have instituted for the purpose of making our duty more easy of performance, but they have largely lost their significance. The Cosmopolitan Club cannot be effective without individual effort and labors, and moreover, is handicapped...
...members of the University to an exhibition at the Fogg Museum of paintings by H. G. E. Degas. The painter was born in 1834, and is still living. Some of the most important works of the master are exhibited, with reproductions of other pictures and drawings. As we all know, Degas is in many respects the ablest French painter of the past generation. The Ballet and the Race Course were his favorite subjects. What interested him most he painted best. The pictures have appealed to the public because of the popular subjects painted and the excellence of the painting. They...
...least succeeded in making vice hideous. Mr. Carb's play, "The Other Side," attempts to inform the reader (the play is fortunately too short for the stage) that for a woman there is more chance of happiness in vice than in unmarried virtue. Incidentally one happens to know that this is false and that the author knows it also. In a review later on in the Monthly, Mr. Westcott says that we sometimes hear that "art for art's sake is decadent--whatever that means." It ought not to mean anything. As a matter of fact it does mean that...
...great in the depth of his sorrow, great in his elevated personality, great in his admiration for his University, great in his patriotism, great in his ideas as to the destiny of our race, great in his influence for good, like the genial and vivifying rain from heaven. We know that 'Nature might stand up and say to all the world: This...