Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the freshmen know so little about the study of rhetoric that it was only through the kindness of their instructor who decided not to accept the last examination as a test that they were saved from everlasting disgrace. Another examination in English A will take place to-morrow...
...great measure true, is evident from the very slight acquaintance which men in our own college have with their instructor. This is a fact greatly to be deplored; for it is undoubtedly a great deprivation to the men to be unacquainted with their instructors and for the instructor to know but slightly the men they meet two or three times a week during the year...
...fact that the college works with so many hands and covers so much ground is what keeps her so wretchedly poor. For, to suppose that Harvard is just rolling in wealth and doesn't know what to do with her cash is about as correct as that divinity-school estimate of the college quadrangle. Harvard would be rich if she were not ambitious. Lazy colleges grow rich. But at Cambridge some very live men know that power means duty-that money brings opportunity and responsibility. If they see anything good in "Fair Harvard," they see nothing to make men vain...
...sciences, and the best of all is that good as are the helps and high as are the standards, nobody has such a conceited estimate of them as not earnestly to strive to make them better. Knowledge is here thoroughly humble over its own ignorance; it knows enough to know its own limitations. The college life is so vigorous as to spend nearly a million dollars a year, and still feel wretchedly pinched in every department by poverty. And the mental life is so vigorous that scholars feel, all the time, mortally ashamed of doing so little. Life works...
...said that Socrates was much like our own Mr. Emerson who prided himself on having no scheme of his own. Not-withstanding this fact, Socrates was a prolific parent of philosophical schools and his influence was felt for generations after his death. The one principle of Socrates which we know is "All knowledge is virtue." Mr. Grote has done valuable service in refuting the common opinion held as regards the sophists. He shows that they had no share in corrupting Athenian youth. A strong argument in favor of this view is that Plato in his dialogues, Protagoras and Gorgias, treating...