Word: known
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...very politely received in another room by some Freshmen of rather a different stamp from any I had seen that evening. They were a manly set of fellows, and were discussing the formation of a Lacrosse Club. When I had made known the object of my coming, and had answered a few questions of frankly expressed ignorance, one of their number offered to subscribe for the whole year, and the other seven immediately followed suit...
...well-known Mr. Fair, of Nevada, honored the college by a visit last week, and the hospitality of several societies was gladly extended to him. The monotony of life here is so rarely broken by the visits of really distinguished men, that when such a prominent gentleman as Mr. Fair comes among us the event is regarded with great interest and remembered with satisfaction...
This Association shall be known as the Harvard Athletic Association...
...Quartette. What we did not state, and what we did not then know, was that they afterwards changed their name to "The Arion Quartette of Harvard College." These facts seem to justify all that we said in the last Crimson, though we freely and willingly acknowledge that, had we known of the "Arion's" change of title, by which they confessed to a mistake in the beginning, we should not have found it necessary to criticise them so severely...
...speaking of your friend Brown, in San Francisco. "O yes," ejaculates the man of universal information, with the air of a person who has known Brown from boyhood, and has been on intimate terms with the Brown family for three generations. You question him closely, and he says he has not seen Brown for several years; does n't suppose he should recognize him now. When questioned more closely, he admits he does not know Brown personally, but has heard a great deal about him. This is what most of his intimate friendships amount to. But his conceit is impenetrable...