Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduate does not live his four years of life at Cambridge with a full appreciation and enjoyment of them, unless he does more in College than merely study or loaf. By entering a CRIMSON competition, a man plunges at once "in medias res" and he soon gets to know all the many and varied activities of the University. In no other way can a student acquire such a quantity of information of the many-sided life at College...
...have knowledge, together with a little incidental power of memory, culture will follow. English 2 is not an easy course; but it is by no means beyond the powers of the normal human student. Nor is it too difficult to finish the examination in three hours, provided you know the answers to the questions; for, in the first part of the paper, fifty complete paragraphs are no required; most of the answers can be given in a very few words...
During the mid-year period there is always much discussion of courses for the second half-year. On every side one hears the old, old question: "Do you know of any 'cinch' courses?" The time, energy, and words that are employed in the search for easy courses amounts yearly to an enormous economic waste. Happily, such quests are more frequently made by members of the lower classes than upper-class men. This is because a year or two's experience usually suffices to show an undergraduate that to take a course merely because some friend has confided to him that...
...eating at no one place regularly is it (a) because you prefer to "eat around" or (b) because you know of no good place for regular meals...
Freshmen having friends here or from schools that regularly send men to Harvard know the relative desirability of the various buildings and are able to exercise judgment in their choice of rooms. On the other hand, men coming to Harvard from, places so far away that conditions here are not known and understood are at a decided disadvantage. An agreeable room is not a matter of vital importance but it has a great deal to do with the enjoyment and satisfaction to be had from college life, particularly in the Freshman year...