Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...page after page of what seemed to be an important public dispatch. He apologized for the interruption. "Not at all," said the prime minister; "I am only writing in reply to an Eton boy who wrote to me on a point in Homer." He confessed that he did not know his questioner; but it was a pleasure for an old Etonian to spend his holiday in satisfying the desire for knowledge of one who was at the old school...
...what real good are examinations?" or, as a Freshman once put it, "Quid Bonus?" The Freshman's way of putting it was, perhaps, a happy one, in as much as his question per se gives an answer, namely, that examinations are to show what a man does not know. This is one answer to the question; and, if it be the only one, there must be very few college men who will deny the success of the present system of examinations. But examinations are not, or certainly ought not to be, only to test ignorance; the other...
...crew can practice throwing stones. But the unique character of Tufts is shown in the students and their societies. Every man in the college is a society man, or is being solicited to join some society. It is either Alpha Omega or Omega Alpha. O. A. does not know A. O. and to be a non society man is to be wholly unknown...
...such conferences, and the way in which the student side of the committee should be chosen." For this introductory conference, the four men each, to form the student committee. This method of representation applies, of course, only to the coming conference; the Faculty, and the committee of the Faculty, know perfectly well give, and look forward, as the main result of the first conference, to the solution of this, the most difficult problem in the whole matter of student arbitration...
...because in the main their rules and principles rest far more on usage than on any organic statute or body of statutes. In contrast with these is a class of Constitutions now beginning to attract more notice, and illustrated by those of Switzerland and the United States ; Constitutions usually know as written, because they are wholly contained in written enactments. But the current fashion of expressing, this distinction is unsatisfactory. It does not indicate the true nature of the difference. The real and essential difference is that in Constitutions of the flrst kind all laws are of equal validity...