Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students will doubtless be glad to know that at last work has actually commenced on the much talked of Elevated Railroad, which is to connect Cambridge and Boston. A week ago last Saturday a beginning was made of work on the first trial half mile of the road, and even in this short space of time the work has progressed so rapidly that the trestle work in some places has been erected. An engine and cars are being built for the trial trip, and it looks as if those interested in the L meant business this time. According...
...benefit of the new members of the University who desire to know something of the Harvard Union, its history and its aims, we print to-day the substance of an article which appeared in the CRIMSON last spring. To-morrow will appear an article giving the conditions of membership and other extracts from the constitution...
...sate himself with too much library but a judicious use of this advantage, among the many others which students in Cambridge possess, adds a depth and scope to a man's education which is absolutely essential to one who desires to be considered a cultured gentleman. Everyone must know how mortifying it is to have people talk to you about men of whom you have never heard or of books which you have never read. Why then should opportunities to lessen the number of those books and men, and so strengthen the mind, be cast aside for the sake...
Although many things may be said in favor of the recitation system of treating courses; that it gives students a chance to express themselves, to tell what they know and keeps them from being mere passive agents in the class room; yet are there not many advantages more desirable than these which the talk of the Professor only can give? It surely seems plausible that for three hours each week he can give more information to the men in any course than they can ever obtain by hearing some of their own number repeat in a more crude...
...doubtful, too, if the short season of training thus obtained will be of any great benefit to the candidates for seats in the 'varsity boat. At any rate, the 'varsity crew of last year made their brilliant record without any aid of this nature. As rowing men know only too well, a prolonged period of rigid training grows terribly irksome, and it certainly seems that getting the 'varsity men into rowing trim for a class contest in the fall is stretching the rules of training a trifle...