Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...your land and your freedom very often. The same aspirations for the world of books and for an education animate them that animate you, but in their case, let me tell you, the obstacles to be overcome are vastly greater. Of the Schavic people, I am told, you know but little, and but meagre accounts reach you. I am not to tell you of the struggle going on over our vast Empire. The universities are a peculiar battleground for this struggle. It is here that your Western ideas, and your philosophies, and above all, your example, touch our worn...
...them in ink. This sort of thing is to be expected in the books of a public library, used by a miscellaneous class of readers; but it is humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot but assume that a student was the guilty person-should not know better than to commit such an act of vandalism. Any marking of books belonging to a library is wrong; but such defacement as this has the additional demerit of being excessively silly...
Said one freshman solemnly to another: "Got your lessons?" "I am not sure." "Neither am I; for, you know, you don't always know what you do know for certain, don't you know...
Senior-"Do you know why our college is such a learned place?" Freshman-"Of course; the freshmen always bring a little learning here, and the seniors never take any away, it naturally accumulates...
...Wade College in Cleveland is designed, says the New York Tribune, "for the higher study of the nature of God, and what men know of it, and of the nature of man. Its founder has placed no restriction of sect or of creed upon its teachers. Its object will be to assist, by its library, its lectures, and its other appliances, all persons, of whatever profession or whatever opinion, who want to study any subject regarding man or God, or the relations of man and God with each other. The plans of Wade College do not contemplate any very expensive...