Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting to those who are interested in field athletics, and the success of the Mott Haven team, to know that at the Princeton winter meeting, the following records were made: Standing high jump, H. P. Toler, '86; 4 ft. 6 1-2 in. Putting the shot, James C. Adams, '86; 35 ft. 4 3-4 in. Pole vaulting, H. P. Toler, 9 ft. 6 1-2 in. Running high jump, J. B. Harriman...
...evening, by Prof. Peabody and Hon. L. Edwin Dudley, will be on the working of the Law and Order League. Prof. Peabody has been active in the work in Cambridge, while Mr. Dudley has a national reputation for a vigorous enforcement of the liquor laws. All who wish to know what the liquor laws are, how they are enforced, and what the Law and Order League has done in the United States, should attend this meeting, at Sever...
...said that the zest of life is gone when we know that all is fixed. Do we read a story with less interest because the last page was written long ago? Indeed, the man of clear vision, who can estimate the forces at work in him and around him, is encouraged and emboldened when he feels that he knows what he is to accomplish. To him an opportunity is more than an exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast...
...result of circumstances and of the characters of his parents. The question now arises: if we carry our inquiry back far enough, shall we arrive at a point where intellect and will are swallowed up in mechanical forces of which they are the slowly evolved product? If so, I know not how we can explain responsibility. But if we say that intellect and will are the ultimate elements, the way lies open for an explanation. Let us suppose a will solicited by no motives, and therefore free as a stream is free when it flows unobstructed, yet whose essence, like...
...case, look for such opposed motives as could have influenced me; but we should then be merely evading and postponing the real question. We may assume that men are swayed by motives, and that they are apt to go where the strongest one drives them. What we want to know is this: could I with these same fixed motives have acted differently? Is my choice essentially independent not only of present circumstances, but also of my past circumstances and settled character; so that each act of my will is not a result from their union, but a new force, springing...