Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Tutor to Freshman. "Your translation is incorrect; it is not as I explained it yesterday." Fresh. "I know it, sir; I looked the matter up after recitation, and I found that you were wrong." - Chronicle...
...efforts to avoid the spread-eagle know-little-and-talk-a-great-deal style of oratory in favor with our average American stump-speaker, we have touched the other extreme, and have laid ourselves open to a kind of censure which such articles as that on "The Repressive Influence of Harvard" may be supposed to represent. When one of our own professors publicly acknowledges that there is more than a grain of truth in the remark of an outsider to the effect that a Harvard graduate, however much he may know, can say but a few sentences on any subject...
...youth of eighteen who, on entering college, fails to make many good resolutions for his future guidance, is a phenomenon; he who makes and abides by them six months, simply a prodigy. Ah, my rosy-cheeked, jacketed Galahad, talented and spotless, we know very well how your dreams are to be realized! Born and bred in some quiet New England village, where two croquet-parties in the week would be considered downright dissipation, naturally bright and ambitious, urged on by a schoolmaster proud of having the opportunity to fit one man for college, and sustained by the admiration...
...know the reason...
...ought to write, have been extremely obliging and constant. We hope that more men will write for us next year. In regard to news, we have often found it a difficult task to give a sufficient amount of interesting matter without descending to gossip and personalities, which we know our readers do not wish in a college paper, and which we ourselves are loath to introduce. Our desire to establish friendly relations with our sister paper has been met in so courteous a manner by the Editors of the Advocate that we feel sure that the present state of feeling...