Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well-known fact that one can acquire more good and get more practice when one is beaten than when one is victorious. It is always better to play with a more powerful rival than it is to play such teams as our nine is compelled to meet. To know that you can conquer, to feel no respect for your opponent, is to give rise to feelings of laxity and carelessness which are positively injurious to a good team. In such contests the weak points of the team have no chance of being found out, and are thus left uncorrected till...
...PAYSON, Jr,The second of the Natural History Society's talks occurs this evening when Mr. S. H. Scudder, recently assistant librarian of the University will have a few words on "Massachusetts Butterflies." Those who have read his enjoyable book, "Butterflies" know how much that is pleasant is to be expected to-night. The talk has perhaps an additional interest because it occurs on Mr. Scudder's fiftieth birthday, following a celebration of that event in which his scientific friends have joined to do him honor. The society extends a cordial invitation to all students to attend these meetings...
...then economic abstinence contrary to the love of your neighbor? Does the love of your neighbor preclude the love of yourself? If so, for what have Butler and Hartley and Mill lived? Again, "Saving is not a virtue at all in the Bible." No, and we did not know that, in the sense in which it is not advocated in the Bible, political economy endorsed it either. For either the correspondent must translate his "saving" by "miserliness" or else convict himself of ignorance. But his most absurd remark of all is: "Christ himself was not prudent." Let me recommend...
...powers that be know that a room in the yard is a Harvard man's greatest prize, the value of which increases in geometrical ratio as his years in college advance. Is it fair, then, that every one of the four hundred boarding-school boys in various parts of the United States who are intending to come to Harvard next year, but who have absolutely no connection with college, many of whom never will be here or will be plucked in the examinations, should have an equal chance at the limited number of rooms available, with fellows who have been...
...probably it will be the same as last year and the year before, with one exception. That has been the class team, and there seems to be little doubt but that it will continue to be the team. As to the university tug-of-war no one appears to know what that team is. Four men pulled at the Technology games, which, let us hope, was not the university team. A different four pulled at the games of the Ninth Regiment in December last; and still a third pulled last year. If, then, the fact that...