Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place, you know the fellows had given me several hundred dollars to put up on the game, knowing that we had a pretty sure thing of it; and they had particularly asked me to get odds of at least five to one, as somebody had told them that Harvard would probably back her team; but the very first Harvard man I struck had the impudence to laugh in my face, and ask me "how I had the cheek to ask for odds when our team had beaten Columbia thirteen goals and six touch-downs to nothing, while Harvard...
...team, - to play back on their eleven; got him into their medical school or some such measly trick, - in all probability, just to play against us, - and before they had been playing half an hour, he nearly got into a fight with our man, Jack Hardcase, who, as you know, is one of the most gentlemanly men that ever played on our eleven. You see Jack ran at Blazes when Blazes did not have the ball, and kicked his shins so as to distract his attention, and give our man, Drinkoff, a chance to make a touch-down...
...agree with the Advocate in the inadvisability of appointing a graduate of several years' standing to the presidency of any of our undergraduate athletic organizations; for while we do not doubt that he will do all in his power to further its interest, we cannot believe that he will know its needs or be able to devote as much time to it, as a resident undergraduate...
...know now that wealth and contentment...
...Crimson's statement is indorsed. Captain Bancroft was perfectly right in telling '81 that only by her rowing Cornell could the 'Varsity be kept up; there were no class races to rely upon then. He was right, again, in advising '82 to row Columbia, because he did not know how much the class races were going to amount to, as in that year they were rowed for the first time for a long while. When the Crimson said that a Freshman race clashes with the interests of the 'Varsity, it did not refer simply to such a direct...