Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great bulk that many courses have now attained has made it practically impossible for the instructor even to know his men by name, and this has necessarily tended to drive out the element of personal interest. Added to this, the professors have changed from men who had a philosophical interest in their students as well as in their subjects, to scientific experts who have devoted their whole energy to their subject and the best means of imparting it to others. Efficiency based on knowledge is nowadays sought more eagerly than wisdom, both by the professor and by the student...
...Reference has been made to Haughton's statement that this eleven is the best Harvard team he ever coached. He is the man to know about that, naturally. Whether it was the greatest Haughton product or not, the fact remains that it ranks with the great Crimson elevens of all time...
...eight-first birthday. Besides many generous donations to the University, among which are Soldiers Field and the Harvard Union, he has always taken a very active interest in college affairs. Major Higginson is one of those men who are universally admired, and who furnish ideals to all who know them...
...McGill's plan the ball must be kicked over a wooden bar 10 feet from the ground." For some time previous to the contest, the team was drilled by night on Jarvis Field. Although this game represented the crudest kind of football, compared with the game as we know it today, yet it aroused great enthusiasm over the new Rugby rules in the various colleges, and it was a result of this feeling that the Harvard-Yale series began in 1875. A contemporary Harvard publication in speaking of the game says: "Football will be a popular game here...
...died at the time eighteen years ago when he was so near death's door; it is said that there has never been a moment of buoyant humor in his writing since that time, and hence he has been subjected to much criticism. But few people know, Mr. Bangs said, the cause of that change. Rudyard Kipling had a little daughter to whom he was greatly devoted. When he fell ill, he was unconscious for fifteen days, during which time his daughter was suddenly taken sick and died. Kipling's first request upon gaining consciousness was for his daughter...