Word: knows
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...deep and real spirit of the University is one of willingness to face difficulties, and to forget the individual in striving for the nation. The Naval Cruise is one of the finest chances that could be devised for young men of education preparing themselves for national defence. We know the tremendous need of the navy for trained officers and reserves. The opportunity is open to Harvard men of showing the spirit that they have shown in the past, and of perpetuating the name of Harvard enthusiasm, to take the place of a mythical Harvard indifference. Two hundred and fifty...
...eminently fitting; yet we had never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge of science, but ignorance of Latin"; and they wonder even at the steadfastness of tradition...
...piece selected is a thre-act comedy by Griseppe Giacosa, the title of which is in the form of a proverb, "Chi Lascia la Via Vecchia perla Nnova say quell the Lascia e non sequel the Trova," which means what he who leaves the old for the new knows that he leaves behind and does not know that he is to find...
...department is eligible to avail himself of the facilities which the Appointment Office affords. Although the office also helps the older and more experienced graduates, it wishes particularly to talk things over with the men who are seeking permanent positions for the first time, as these men know less about the kind of work they are best suited for and so are more easily persuaded to accept the first position offered to them...
...else. For in music in this country our only very appreciable progress has been professional. professionalized music, bought and sold like any other commodity of luxury or convenience, has been the brand with which we are all familiar. We hear of exorbitant prices paid to the great singers. We know the tremendous cost of maintaining opera, or a symphony orchestra; and on the other hand, we hear about the fortune made by a clever writer of popular songs. Our basis of the value of music is for the most part two-fold: that of the popular brand of music, which...