Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...book was begun by a self-appointed committee, without the knowledge or consent of the Freshman class. It is an innovation; and an innovation should always be carefully considered before it becomes a fact. Very likely, the Freshman class, if consulted, would approve the Red Book, but as they know nothing about it, it is now greatly criticised. Perhaps it would be a help for all parties, if more was known about it, what its financial basis will be, and its chances for success...
...know of nothing so interesting as meeting the mind fresh as it comes into the College, and trying to impress it as well as you can with the habit of thought, trying to stimulate its imagination, trying to get it into the university way. And it is also illuminating, it shows you a good many things. One of the things that it has shown me is that few of the boys who come to us from schools can read books; they can read the printed page, of course, a sentence or a paragraph, but they cannot read a book...
...courteous treatment were we on the side of the visiting team, and then we should accord such treatment to our guests. "Rattling" a visiting team is unsportsmanlike, for it is clearly taking an unfair advantage. This usually takes the form of organized cheering at times which the cheer leaders know are inopportune for our opponents, and is really more unfair than such recognized foul play as tripping a base-runner, for it is taking advantage of a circumstance over which the visiting team has no control: namely, that it is on our grounds. As we rather pride ourselves...
...College year of 1908-09 has just been completed. The most important article of the report is that devoted to the choice of electives. The purpose of the modifications of the elective system are, as stated by President Lowell in the report, to require every student to know a little of everything and something well, and to plan his whole College curriculum seriously...
...wishes to express to President and Mrs. Lowell the gratitude of the undergraduates for the cordial reception which they extend to the student body on Sundays. It costs no little sacrifice to give up the best part of every Sunday afternoon, and we wish President and Mrs. Lowell to know that their hospitality has not passed unrecognized...