Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very attractive form. While the book possesses none of the garrulity or impudent inquisitiveness of minor affairs that makes biographies so popular now-a-days, (a thing which would be impossible in the present instance, however,) one can find in it all that a reasonable reader can desire to know of the poet. The press-work is excellently done, and is a credit to the publisher. The illustrations are well drawn, and one of the most commendable features of the book is the complete index with which it is supplied...
...library are observed. There are many persons who take advantage of the privilege of keeping reference books and periodicals over night, and then turn them to private purposes for a longer time. Of course the library officials are supposed to put a check upon all such practices, but we know, unfortunately, how successful they are, and frequently try for days to catch a glimpse of the last Atlantic or Century...
...Weekly thus speaks of the Harvard Law School: "The friends of the Harvard Law School are moving to increase the endowment of that institution, and those who reside in New York make a strong appeal not only to Harvard graduates, but to the well-disposed munificent everywhere who know that one of the very best ways of giving is to strengthen strong and admirable institutions. Within a few years the Harvard Law School has striven with great success to raise the standard of professional education. But to do this effectively the force of teachers must be increased, while the income...
Below is a petition sent to the faculty in 1902 by Miss Winnie Verdantique. It is written - the petition, not Miss Verdantique - on the daintiest kind of note paper with the coat-of-arms of the Green family impressed at the top. For Green pere, you must know, once kept a grocery, "but arter the war he had went on the street" where he was known among his set as "old Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms...
...entry behave himself. In the first place, when he passes me on the stairs, he invariably winks at me, a thing which I don't even allow one of the instructors to do, (unless I've got a condition); besides he is wretched homely, and smokes cigarettes, which you know is not at all comme il faut, and I don't see how you ever came to make a Yale graduate a proctor. His room, of course, is right above mine, and the worst of it is that he is trying to learn the new waltz. You giddy devotees...