Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...branch of the industries of the United States, or indeed of the civilized world, is of more importance economically or politically than that of railroad building and management. In Prussia, we know, their management is considered a matter of state administration, and they are at present, we believe, as a property also, vested exclusively in the State. In this country a different system prevails. Although it may be considered an open question why the State, in matter of railway communication and the telegraph, as well as in the post-office, should not assume the complete management of these channels...
Rumors of important changes in our athletic system have been flying around the college of late, and a restless and uneasy feeling as to what these changes may be has been aroused among the undergraduates. We do not know definitely whether any changes will be made, although we have good reason to believe that the Committee are in favor of making some alterations; but in view of the present state of opinion, we deem it our duty to speak a few words to Committee and students alike...
...opposed them. Not that anyone objected to the changes proposed, all were aware that the game was unnecessarily brutal. But this sudden awakening of the Committee, just before the great game of the year, seemed uncalled for, if not absurd. If was evident that, if the Committee did not know how the game was played they were unfit for their position, while if they did know it, they took an unfair advantage of the students by not making known their views at some sensible time. After this episode, came the famous "Athletic Regulations," and after posing for a few weeks...
...most men, but almost all agree that if our library were open one or two hours during the evening it would enable many men who are fully occupied during the day with recitations and exercise to get at least a few moment's reading. We know too well the old cry that if men want to read they can do it in the daytime, but the fact remains that men do not go to the library as often as they should. Surely the expense of putting two or even four electric lights in the library would be small, since...
...course you do not know how to reach it, but the accommodating assistants will inform you. You ascend the staircase and find yourself in what appears to be a very bare and uninteresting room. Be not deceived; its treasures like those of the earth, must be sought after in order to be found. There are things which must attract every one's attention, but let me say that it is a veritable paradise for cranks-I mean such cranks as coincollectors, bibliophilists and autographic fiends. How their hands must itch to see lying before their eyes such unattainable treasures...