Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University, the desire to induce more students to use the pool in the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. Building, it seems only right that a warning should be given to the users of this pool concerning the unsanitary conditions that existed there last year, and, as far as I know, are likely to continue this year...
Professor Perry's book, however, approaches Carlyle in a sympathetic spirit, and presents him to readers in a way to attract and induce the perusal of Carlyle's own work. This is its purpose, as the explanatory title, "How to Know Him," indicates. Professor Perry passes from a penetrating and concise account of Carlyle's youth and intellectual growth to a discussion of his literary theory and its application in his various works. Quotation predominates for Carlyle is allowed to "explain himself and his views, as adequately as the inexorable count of pages will permit...
...said of the first Advocate: it is a mistake that no mention is made of international affairs. The solitary editorial, a just enough attack on Advice to Freshmen, does not fill the bill. We are not so blindly self-conscious as would appear--but how is anyone to know it? The reviews perforce are broader...
...psychological study by Mr. Morse reminds us by its hard realism of parts of Arnold Bennett. As with him, we want to know why it was written...
...Watson in "The New Petruchio" tells us the most absurd of yarns in the most charming manner--so that what we too want to know is: "Will it Last...