Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when you think of the old Egyptians do you not feel impressed with the sense of our indebtedness to the great Rosetta Stone?" Harvard junior, slightly discomposed, but coming gallantly forward: "Yes, yes indeed; but then her reign only gives us a further proof of woman's influence, you know." Enthusiastic young lady descends to a lower level. - Boston Journal...
...there is no especial point in having an eleven. So far no captain has been elected. The members of the eighty-five eleven have so far been unable to give anyone a clear majority. Why the eighty-five eleven should elect the captain for eighty-seven, nobody seems to know. The custom has always been for the eleven of one year to elect the captain for the next year. This year there was no University eleven. Consequently the three upper class elevens, which take the place of the University eleven, ought to have been called upon to elect the captain...
...prayers is a survival of methods based upon entirely different theories of education than those which are now accepted, and offends the sense of justice as much as the refusal to give due weight to the testimony of an honest man simply because he says that he does not know whether there...
...quoted as saying that he hoped optional studies would be altogether discontinued. But what seemed to me the most queer part of it all was, that it was the earnest desire of the alumni to have the name of Yale College changed to Yale University. I do not know what men studying at Harvard will think of these remarks - I am rather inclined to believe they will not give them much weight. It seems absurd to call Yale a University, and then asking that optional studies may be altogether discontinued. Yale needs more elective studies, so as to give every...
...between capital and labor, on which the optimists dwell, come to pass. Legislation may do much to help in industrial crises. As witnesses of this, the good effect of the establishment of coffee houses, savings banks, etc., on the continent is cited. Labor has learned in this country to know its power, and how by holding the balance of power politically it may accomplish its end. The leaders of labor associations desire to use their political power to further their economic ends. But the danger lies in their dense ignorance of the laws of political economy and of kindred sciences...