Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interest for some to know of the ceremonies attendant upon acquiring the degree of Ph. D. in Germany. A title which not a few of us hope to obtain. The main requirements are that the student write an extensive thesis in the study of which he makes his specialty, and that besides he be prepared to pass an oral examination in any two other subjects. For instance a medical student would write his thesis on a medical subject and stand prepared in Philosophy and Chemistry, or any two other subjects, akin to his main study...
...college papers do not fill up more or less of their space with comments on "Our Exchanges." Whoever would know the inter-relations of college papers has but to search for this heading, and beneath it read the compliments, slanders, questions, and suggestions which one worthy sheet sees fit to bestow on its loved, or hated, contemporaries...
...that he must do his studying elsewhere. Nothing is more erroneous than this idea. Harvard is a place where, in point of wealth, the extremes meet, and that is just what the governing authorities intend it should be. To the young man with money, that he doesn't know what to do with, every opportunity is afforded of spending it. The tuition fee is high, and expensive board and rooms may be easily obtained. And if the wealthy man still finds money burning in his pocket, why the street cars will take him to Boston in half an hour...
...sure, a few here may have enough depth and intensity of feeling seriously to attempt poetry. But the rest of us, the majority, would do better to forget a first love, which we never had; cease wishing to die; and write of what we know and feel...
...tried for the eleven last year played foot-ball; that is, for the sake of the credit of being on the team and of getting the uniforms. Such motives are perfectly contemptible, and the sooner eighty-nine realizes that their captain and the people who are coaching them know more about rowing than they do, the better it will be for their prospects of winning the June race...