Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cannot but ask for an explanation. Doubtless a member of the upper classes would say: - "They are freshmen and so know no better. But as a freshman I dismiss this answer with the contempt it deserves. For my own part, I can devise but one explanation. Probably the men who converse are so thoroughly familiar with the principles of English composition and are so skilled in the practice of it that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height...
...past; and that now it is committed to a course which must remain unchanged for some time to come. This could hardly have been said of the college before, within the memory of present undergraduates and only last year changes were wrought which greatly required his presence. We know that we express the hopes of the whole university, that safety and pleasure may attend President Eliot while abroad and that prosperous journeying will return him safe to the university in the fall...
...article may have been written under a misapprehension of the facts, but if the author is at present in college, (and there is internal evidence that this so,) then he should be discovered, and branded with the contempt that he deserves. Who is this person that pretends to know the needs and means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these men as being able to get along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust that this omniscient writer himself is not one of these unfortunate high...
...boys. We also wish to certify, hereby, that these boys are well bred and polite, and what is the best additional quality, they are afraid of no one. If family jars ever occur, or if Johnny does something the older boys would not have done, we all know the old adage about the best regulated families. Mother Harvard is the best of women, and her family is a model for any community...
...consequently great expense of any formal entertainments prevents these relations from generally becoming more than professional. A few exceptionally good scholars find warm and sympathetic friends in their instructors, and students who are personally introduced to instructors are sure of a cordial welcome. But here the matter ends. I know of hardly any instance where an offer has been neglected to improve opportunities to know students personally. I wish that I could say as much for the rather diffident youths, who, doubtless unmeaningly, have more than once failed to respond to friendly advances. What I have said, however, should...