Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman hesitates on the word "connoisseur." Professor: "What would you call a man that pretends to know every thing?" Freshman answers: "A professor." - [Chronicle...
...made for the meetings next month. It is of prime importance that no more seats should be sold than the reserved section can accommodate. Although it is impossible to reserve special seats, it seems that the benches might be numbered and the tickets marked so that a man should know that a part of some particular bench is reserved for him. If this seems impracticable, the seats might be divided into plats or sections, which can be referred to on the tickets. To avoid dissatisfaction the principle of "first come first served" should hold in the sale of tickets...
...comes out valiantly in defence of its base-ball grounds, and insinuates that all items in reference to them proceed either from want of information or from a desire to account for defeat. We sympathize deeply with Brown in her misfortune, but must say in self-defence, that we know something personally about her grounds, and do not think that there is enough of them, or that what there is of them is good for much...
...where excessive endowments had worked injury. "What an individual or what a community may best do for the superior education of this country is to create a high type of it. It is not news to you, gentlemen, that there is not now one single adequate American university. We know that our beloved institution has made progress, great progress, during the last fifteen years, but still she is far from the institution that is needed in this country. And whatever we can do to make her more worthy of our nation we do also for every other institution of superior...
...formed in regard to Harvard - that there was no college in the country whose graduates improved so much after leaving college. We have a right to be proud of Yale, since the great compliment which Lord Bacon, in a familiar passage, prophetically paid us. Lord Bacon, as you all know, says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible. At Yale they aim at and achieve all that is possible. The motto of Cambridge rejects the common sense of the classic...