Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard's three to nothing defeat of Princeton at the Stadium, Cambridge, on Saturday was well-earned, and a triumph for players as well as coaches. The Crimson was an inexperienced eleven, an eleven which had to know defeat by a minor college team before it began to weld into an efficient organization. It was all of that on Saturday last. Taking the Crimson team by and large, it suffers by comparison with Harvard elevens of the past few years in so far as it is weak in punting and drop-kicking and lacks the threat which Mahan was wont...
...backfield men now know what is meant by hard tackling; the linemen know what it means to play through 60 minutes of hard, damaging work. Up to the Princeton game the team was distinctly an unknown quantity, but today the graduates of Harvard, the public and the coaches realize that they have an eleven which has been put to the test, and even with many of the breaks against them, were not found wanting...
...travelling through your country," he said, "I have noticed that you lack unity of purpose. You seem anxious to make some change but you do not know what. Your first aim is to get more money, it seems, whereas it should be to put the money which you have, and which you will get, to some use so that good may be derived from...
Most men do not know their own capacities and limitations. If they did, there would be fewer misfits, fewer round pegs in square holes. The man who can tell approximately what he is worth, and then go out and make himself better, cannot help succeeding. He is the man who has learned to think before he goes to jail...
Only the European and the most advanced of the Eastern countries know of the predominant place that Harvard occupies. In South America Pennsylvania, by means of the explorations carried on there by the professors of that university, is the best-known of North American educational institutions. In the Far East Yale has more men connected with the foreign trade of the United States than Harvard, while Cornell with a demand for its engineers which never ceases is represented by a number of graduates greater than those of Harvard and Yale combined. As the number of college men permanently or temporarily...