Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...made in point of scholarship. If a man is working for honors, and deserves them, let him be informed of his success, and the man who fails may also be made acquainted with the result in his case. No particulars should be given to either to let a man know how he has succeeded or failed by a paltry percentage. That the required degree of general excellence was attained is enough; it should not be aggravatingly analyzed, and thus also with men who have not passed. They should not be embittered with such a keenlydrawn line so nearly approached...
Recitatione Latina hominorum viridum. Prof. - "Well, Mr. B., explain that reference in the next line. What do you know about Euterpe?" H. V. - "Nothing, sir, further than that he was a celebrated musician!" - [Clamose snickerunt omnes...
...exchange wants to know "whether our colleges turn out gentlemen." Certainly not; the gentlemen are allowed to go on and graduate. - [Ex.] We print the above and think it should be admired on account of its antiquity. Had Oscar read the college papers he would have recognized in this a veritable ruin...
...lions of Washington society, has a number of stories told at his expense. Here is the latest: He asked a clever young lady if there was not a river near Washington called the Potomac. "Oh, yes," said she, "and I should think you would know all about it, because there is a place on it called Mount Vernon, where a man named Washington lived. You are sure to have heard of him, you know, because his father was an Englishman...
...practised writing exercises fails to recognize the advantage gained in being able to express one's self in French. We are encouraged to try to talk, and "advised" (i. e. obliged,) to write our examinations in French. In this many men experience great difficulty, as they do not know how to express themselves, having paid almost entire attention to simple translation, which seems to be the chief end of our French and German courses at Harvard...