Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...newcomer has opportunities to meet Harvard men in Chicago and to alleviate as much as possible the sensation of strangeness which is felt by a young graduate coming in search of a position, to an unknown city for the first time. The club wishes that the undergraduates should know of the existence of this committee, so if later they decide to go to Chicago they may be sure of a welcome from any member of the following committee: A. Boal '00, 150 Michigan avenue; A. G. cable '09, 240 Wabash avenue; F. S. Churchill '86, 1259 North state street...
...most fitting that the custom of holding a special commemorative service upon the anniversary of the dedication of Brooks House has been resumed this year. The keen interest that Phillips Brooks took in the welfare of Harvard and in the individual career of each man whom he came to know is attested by the records of the time and by those who were fortunate enough to be his friends...
...were broad and generous. He valued scholarship wherever be found it, even when it lay outside of his own particular interests. He was, in fact, the least dogmatic of men, despite the impression to the contrary which his vigorous way of speaking frequently made upon those who did not know him well. He was a firm believe in free discussion, and he listened readily to the suggestions of his younger associates. It never entered his head to dictate a policy. If he ruled at all, he ruled by love...
...several narrow escapes form infuriated elephants and rhinos, once stopping a charging elephant only ten feet off. Buffaloes, also, were very dangerous. Lion hunting, though Colby said, is the finest sport of all, for the hunter is pitted against another trained hunter who knows much more about it than he does. Lions are crafty, and often seem cowardly, for they know that their charge is dangerous only within 40 yards. Once started, however, nothing but instant death can stop them...
...know about business we must know about Wall Street. Now the present condition of business in Wall Street is unsatisfactory. Business men and capitalists are not making much money, and the future outlook is poor. Two reasons are given: over-production; and extravagance, luxurious living, and expenditure of savings--in other words, the high cost of living, and the cost of high living. Business men ascribe the depression to the latter, but the former is more nearly correct...