Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...ordinary follower of football. He places Coolidge at left end; Gilman, left tackle; Taylor, left guard; Harris, centre; Dadmun, right guard; Caner, right tackle; Harte, right end; Robinson, quarterback; Boles, left halfback; Flower, right halfback; and Bond, fullback. Of Coolidge, Gilman, Taylor, Dadmun, Harte and Boles, all football enthusiasts know a great deal. The new names are Harris, centre; Caner, right tackle; Robinson quarter-back; Flower and Bond, backs...
February 13.--Dr. F. H. Verhoeff '02: Some simple facts regarding the eyes that everyone should know...
...office. Practical men, for instance, who are chiefly interested in doing things, who take an objective view of life, who think of it in terms of action, will not usually make great ministers. They are better executives and business men than prophetic leaders. Scientific men, chiefly interested in knowing things, caring mostly for truth for the truth's sake, while they are not infrequently found in the profession, are not the most at home there. The type of man who will find his place in the ministry is of the expressive or artistic sort...
...ancient cave-man in my inmost soul. My heart is hot to drink the cup of wrath, to press the rue from the drunken bowl." But President Wilson in his message says that "If our citizens are ever to fight effectively upon a sudden summons, they must know how modern fighting is done, and what to do when the summons comes to render themselves immediately available and immediately effective." It would seem advisable, therefore, to keep sober even for war, and be temperate in all things, even in the Harvard battalion...
...shop will mean much to students who desire to collect books and yet who do not know how to select their purchases or how much they should pay for them. Here there will always be some one to advise them; and already this new shop has an extremely interesting collection of rare editions and fine bindings. The greatest field for this new Yale institution will be in second-hand books of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Good editions of the writers of the Queen Anne and Georgian ages may be purchased reasonably and the time is not far away...