Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York city to invite the governor of Massachusetts to their annual dinner on the eve of Washington's Birthday, and for the corporation of Harvard College to decorate him with the honorary degree of doctor of laws at the annual commencement in July. All this will come hard, we know, in His Excellency Governor Butler's case, not only on general considerations, but also in remembrance of a remark he once made about hanging Harvard professors; but we trust that the Harvard men will brace up and not suffer their prejudices to conquer their politeness. Go through with the whole...
Gladstone has been discussing the Irish and Egyptian questions. He says he does not know why the latter should govern themselves...
...that their manners would be refined, and that they would early grow out of their boyish roughness. But I cannot imagine equal benefit to the girls. I suspect no danger in co-education to the character of the students; it merely seems to me an experiment without necessity. We know that if girl students attend faithfully to their duties at their own colleges they graduate accomplished women, and what more do we want? That co-education is declared a success at several excellent institutions does not prove that it is worth while extending it so long as it is fully...
...here a compulsory custom. The faculty require that with each number the editors' names appear in full. It is no more in keeping with our own personal taste in the matter than it is with Harvard's, but the law of the Medes, etc., demand it, you know. [Yale News...
...published lecture to his classes is as notable for various and accurate and unusual learning as it is for crisp and charming literary skill. It is no less full of delight and instruction for the general reader than of historic value to the professional student. It is pleasant to know that Dr. Holmes resigns only that he may devote himself more exclusively to literary occupations. The professor who has taught the Medical School withdraws in favor of the professor who has charmed all the world. - [Harpers' Weekly...