Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...announcement made by the Co-operative Society in regard to foreign text books, marks an extension of the advantages of this practical and useful institution. Students who have taken German and French courses know the disadvantages and delays under which they have labored before they could really begin their work. It is proposed now to collect the orders at once and forward to the foreign publishers, and thus do away with the uncertainties and high prices attendant on purchases from American and especially Cambridge booksellers. In order to realize the full benefits of this scheme, the orders should...
...inward nature form the real and large world; so that to be among them is only to be schooled for the wider association that must come later. For the character of college students can differ very little, if at all, and to see and know what men are and what they may and ought to be, to be associated with every kind of man, that the country affords through differences in locality or occupation or early education and circumstances, is the better to prepare oneself to meet the same, only stronger and more serious characters in later life
...interest some to know what a few rich men have done for the cause of education. Johns Hopkins gave $3,148,000 to the university which he founded. His gifts for benevolent purposes amounted to $8.000,000. Judge Packer gave $3,000,000 to Lehigh University. Cornelius Vanderbilt gave $1,000,000 to the Vanderbilt University. Stephen Girard gave $8,000,000 to Girard College. John C. Green and his residuary legatees gave $1,500,000 to Princeton College. Ezra Cornell gave $1,000,000 to Cornell University. Isaac Rich bequeathed the greater part of his estate, which was appraised...
...doubts as to what courses or departments he would best choose, will avail himself of these excellent opportunities of learning something more about the various courses than the mere statements given in the elective pamphlet, and of conversing with those who, by experience, at least ought to know what the advantages of their courses are and what mental requirements those courses are capable of meeting. The necessarily greater Intimacy that arises from the informal meetings of instructors and instructed, is always beneficial and helpful to all concerned. To the instructors it gives a wider knowledge of their pupils that assists...
...case refused. In case of removal from office, which does not take place except at the end of the period of one, three or five years for which the appointment runs, no such assent is necessary. The name of the appointee is simply dropped; the corporation and overseers need know nothing about it, unless they happen to miss his name from the next year's catalogue...