Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...machine-like mind is not at a premium in the business and professional circles of today. The young man with a constructive mind is alone able to cope with existing problems. Thousands of men can add up columns of figures correctly, remember any number of recorded law cases, or know every law in chemistry,--but it is the exceptional man who with the aid of a constructive mind, can establish an improved system in the business organization of the country, or make a discovery in science...
...Flying Corps Headquarters at 1280 Massachusetts avenue will be open today to receive enrolments between 10 o'clock and 5 o'clock. Men who wish to join the school should sign up at once, in order that the graduate committee may know how many to provide...
...have signed up for Plattsburg or any other of the government camps and have not done so through the Regiment, are requested to leave their names at Weld 3 or the Rendezvous, so that the committee may know, just how many students of the University are going. All men who have enrolled for one of the camps or the Naval Cruise are entitled to wear special badges, which they may obtain at either of the committee's headquarters this afternoon. The committee asks all men entitled to these badges to wear them...
...required studies as to prevent a student from looking at a daily, or even a weekly, would indeed be unwise, but not discouraging. But to think that students, of all people, should read day by day the narrative of the epoch-making events now occurring in Europe without knowing or caring what it meant, is most appalling, for it shows that they have not yet learned how to read. It is better not to read at all than to read without any effort at understanding, for this habit is not only a waste of time, but destructive to the intellect...
...know, the authorities have freely granted permission to the Freshman class to give their Jubilee, you acting as hosts on that day to your friends, including patronesses and young ladies. Permission has been given to hold this Jubilee with the understanding that all members of the Freshman class are prohibited from using beer, wine and liquor in the dormitories on this occasion. I would ask you to see that this is thoroughly understood...