Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hardly expect to reach high place in after life. It does not make so much difference, as the statistics from the Law School show, what a man studies, but how he studies it. And for real grasp of the life he must live, a man must not only know as nearly as possible something about everything, but as nearly as possible everything about something
...would be well if the current number of the Graduates' Magazine were read by every undergraduate. It is of course desirable that the graduates should be among the first to know of the changes in opinion which are being disclosed, so that they, being convinced, may tell their juniors that they wish that things had been presented to them in this light when they were undergraduates; but after all it is the undergraduate who can profit personally by the new appeal for a fundamental change in the attitude of the average undergraduate toward his college work. In the last generation...
...course the classes could elect these men from the candidates at large; but they won't as is evident from the list of nominees. The reason is that the mass know only the mass. It would seem wise, therefore, in order to enlist the services of Messrs. X and Y, to revive the old provision, whereby some of the members of the Council are elected by the Council itself. If everybody is to be represented, let us have among the representatives a few nobodies-the singular of which everybody is the plural. A. S. OLMSTRO...
...many men who daily make use of the newspaper files in the Union, few know to whom they are indebted for the large number of journals always at hand. With the exception of the Boston papers, all the dailies regularly found in the Living Room are presented by local Harvard clubs or their officers throughout the country. It is though gifts such as these that graduate organizations can make their existence felt by the student body in Cambridge, and that the undergraduate can be shown the ways in which he can do his small part after rejoining the ranks...
...quick co-ordination of the natural athlete, would count tremendously in a man's favor at New Haven, regardless of whether he had ever played football or gave any promise of playing it. At Harvard, on the other hand, the men are given equal chances of demonstrating what they know, or can readily learn, of football per se; and the tendency is unconsciously to favor the present performer or the one who shows ready aptitude to take instruction. In other words, Harvard sees the present player; Yale sees the future player...