Word: known
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...recent fire in Thayer brings forcibly to mind the general lack of "fire-escapes" throughout the College buildings. It is not generally known, we believe, that a fire-extinguisher can be found in every Proctor's room, but in case of a severe fire the occupants of the upper rooms in every building would have hard work to get down, and we trust some remedy may be found to lessen the present risk...
...glad to learn that the Directors of the Reading-Room are taking steps which look toward a surer foundation for the success of one of the best institutions within our University. It is generally known that during the years previous to this a large debt for gas was contracted; and now that the directors see their way clearly towards a debtless year of our own, it is proposed to pay off this debt of other years that has long hampered the actions of the association. To this end subscriptions are being tendered by the able and the willing, and through...
STUDENTS are warned in these harvest days of the Pocos against trusting a certain cock-eyed Poco of fluent speech who has been generally and not honorably known in College as Livingston...
...examination paper in chemistry has the following: Sulphur has been known from remote antiquity and shall probably continue to be known throughout eternity. -University Herald...
...wall. Men, therefore, in selecting their pieces, often do not choose those for which they are best fitted by nature, but take those which they think the committee will prefer. If a particular style of speaking is favored by the College authorities, it should be made known, both to the competitors and judges. If excellence alone is desired, no matter what the nature of the piece spoken, both judges and students should know. As things are now, there is doubt about the whole matter. The Professor of Rhetoric himself says everything depends upon the taste of the committee...