Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...called here his work was earnest and faithful. The death of Prof. Ko seems, to our mortal reason, untimely. He had acquired some knowledge of our language and civilization. He longed that Chinese children should understand the English language. He was a teacher to all who came to know and esteem him. He taught us that the gentleman and scholar, the earnest and true man, is always the same. After the address, Prof. Everett offered prayer, and the choir sang a hymn from the chapel collection by Whittier. After the singing of the hymn the remains were taken back...
Professor - "Do you know what the sternum is?" Student - "It's the bone the tail feathers grow out of." Class all have the colic...
...head which are called by a milder name, because a college student is supposed to be incapable of crime - he merely breaks the laws." Again he says that a tendency to lawlessness has been observed at Harvard, Yale, etc., within a very recent period. We should be pleased to know in what manner Harvard students, for instance, have been guilty of any lawlessness during, say, the last five or six months. Harvard students have never enjoyed a better reputation than at the present time, and so far this year have been free from any of that rowdyism which...
Miss Mary Fiske is lecturing on "What I Know About Men;" she displays complete familiarity with the subject...
...case is not very serious, but still there are undoubtedly blunders made by many, if not by most of the men, in selecting their courses, which are afterwards regretted, and would have probably been prevented had they had access to good information and advice upon the subject. We know, of course, that it is written that "members of the faculty will be ready at any time to render assistance in this regard;" but it is notoriously the case, nevertheless, that comparatively few men do ever secure the advice of a professor at all in arranging their general course...