Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...course a trainer, if we had one, would do much of this work and would take much trouble off the hands of the Athletic Association. But 'till we get one the Association must do a great deal of tiresome work in getting men to train. As far as we know, though there are several gentlemen in college who understand how to put the shot, none of them have as yet done anything in preparation for this year's events, nor do we know of anyone who has been practicing the pole jump. These events are not easy ones-they need...
...dryly remarked: "It is a misprint." Many will remember his question as to what was done with the persons who were killed at Thermopylae. This called out various answers, to Which he replied by a shake of his head; but when one hopeless freshman replied that he did not know, he answered: "That is right; nobody knows." These anecdotes, with a thousand others, both historical and mythical, are very characteristic of his style of teaching, which did not always follow strictly scientific methods...
...once forwarded to the capital, there to become a mandarin of distinction. It should be fair; for the candidates enter at "The Gate of Perfect Equity," hand in their essays at "The Hall of Perfect Rectitude," see them sealed up in "The Hall of Restraint," and know that they are examined in "The Hall of Auspicious Stars...
...gathering funds to pursue the work. With regard to this veterinary school, the matter has never been written up in the papers, as it should have been done; no public interest has ever been awakened. Had the question been taken up as it should have been done, we know of what we speak in saying that a permanent fund of at least $100,000 could have been raised, and not with any great amount of labor...
...from the founder of a "School of Industrial Art for Women," asking for the help of our late contemporary "so far as to publish the whole or any part of the enclosed article, that all women among your contributors, needing help. (and I doubt not there are many) may know of this opportunity and avail themselves of it." We thoroughly appreciate the efforts of the writer in behalf of her sex, and wish all success to her noble efforts; and if we felt that by publishing the article in question we could in any way advance the interests...