Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...objection to the requirement of physical exercise from every student. Requirements must be met in life. The objection is sometimes raised that a university should teach knowledge and not practice, yet Harvard has already departed from this in the presentation of English which is taught because every one should know it. The same arguments apply equally to the requirement of English and of physical training...
...VARSITY BANJO CLUB.- Rehearsal Monday at 4.45 sharp. Those who are absent and those who do not know their parts to "Stars and Stripes" can not play at Concord...
...know that the University has ever attempted to honor the great president, but it is a custom well worth beginning. Lincoln was not a college graduate. Modern education can not claim him as its product. But it is nevertheless most fitting that the colleges should lead in the movement to show respect for him, because he possessed almost as natural traits many of the finest mental and moral qualities which America is nowadays trying to develop by means of her educational institutions...
That any favoritism exists here to men of Boston and vicinity,- as is implied by many in default of a better explanation of failure,- is strenuously denied by all who are in a position to know. Nevertheless it is extremely doubtful whether circumstances do not produce a biased selection of candidates not in the least contemplated. The candidates for a Freshman team who have made a name for themselves as athletes in the interscholastic league or at some Eastern preparatory schools, will attract the eye of the coach more naturally than an equally good man whose capabilities are unknown...
...University Song as well as a University Club? For there seems to be a strange lack of a college song familiar to all of us. All our gatherings seem incomplete without one. We know how quickly the sympathies of an assembly are awakened by the stimulus of a good chorus. It has the same virtue as a college yell in that each man contributes his part to the common expression, and is conscious of his participation; in fact, the college song is the proper complement of the college cheer...