Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...from '87 editors; $10 for the best literary article contributed during the year '85-'86; $5 for the best poem contributed during the year '85-'86." The first thing notable is that poetry is at a discount, doubtless because the editors who offer the prize, wish to defend themselves, knowing too well that the "wild eyed" poets need little incentive to write. Ever since the world began, man has been inclined to force his thoughts into poetry rather than write them easily in prose. The discount on poetry, there-fore, is very probably due to over-supply. But over-supply...
...flag flying from the topmost notch ever since they have been in college, to realize that they must see it dust and mud stained for the year to come. Let it not be said of us that we who have known prosperity so long and intimately, do not know how to bear defeat, as Harvard surely will not let the converse be said of her. To the nine, all glory; they deserved victory: to the college the opposite; they reaped what they sowed...
...specialist who pleads in behalf of another kind of learning is considered a fanatic. "We don't want original researches," I have heard it said, "but good all-round men," that is to say, the best specimens of the crammer who have a smattering of many things, but know nothing well. But how can it be otherwise? Men whose whole attention has been given to discovering what will pay in the schools are not likely, when they have gained their reward and a sinecure annuity to devote themselves to disinterested study. Examinations and original research are incompatible terms. The object...
...kind of result which it is desirable for a university to turn out. We want men who can think for themselves; not men with an unlimited capacity of cramming down other people's statements, and producing what is called a brilliant set of answers. If a man really knows a subject, he is pretty certain to do badly when examined in it. A thorough knowledge of a subject absolutely prevents it from being compressed into the answers to a few questions. It is only the smatterer who can do this; the real student, with all the details, the arguments...
...many suggestions are being made as to the advisability of giving various courses here in college, I should like to propose a course in such elements of medicine as would be useful to the average college student. Whether the idea is a novelty or not, I do not know; but I believe that such a course would prove an eminently useful and desirable one to any student in college. There is a widespread ignorance of the laws of health among college students, and it is merely by accidental learning that such ignorance is in some cases exchanged for a partial...