Word: knots
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have met with during the last two or three years as examiner in the Cambridge local examinations: 1. 'Pitt was a great statesman; Fox was a ditto, he wrote a very good book of martyrs. Pitt and Fox both died a month after each other.' 2. 'The Gordian knot was a very difficult knot which Nero tied, and by means of which he kept the empire of Rome in subjection...
...course. Although we may learn much, the lesson will make no visible impression on the mind, and after a year or two will fade completely away, never to be recalled. Yet where are we to get instructiors of the type recommended by Professor Tyndall? This is indeed a gordian knot in the shape of a question, and we must confess has not been cut with an answer. Much can be done by a hard working and earnest teacher to keep up the flagging interest of his class, but from the general indifference it is quite evident that there...
Meanwhile another knot of students was assembled behind the backstop on Holmes watching the practice of the nine, under the direction of Captain Phillips. Of this there is nothing worthy of especial mention, as the summer's inactivity had somewhat put the men out of form. It is a good sign that so many men were present to encourage the players, and it is to be hoped that the numbers will not decrease as the season advances...
...Manhatten Athletic Grounds in New York were, on Saturday, alive with a large crowd of contestants and spectators, all interested in the ninth annual games of the I. G. A. A. Delegations of student spectators were present from several colleges, noticeably Columbia, Yale, Princeton and Leigh, while a small knot of Harvard man cheered on the contestants from Cambridge. The day in New York, as well as here, was warm, and although too much for some of the contestants took any chilliness out of the air and warmed up the men to their work as the records show...
Last year the all-important question in the university was the subject of the governor's degree. That question was grappled with by the overseers in a very heroic fashion, and the Gordian knot was cut, although the manner of its cutting may have displeased many. In other words the custom of conferring the degree of LL. D. upon the governor was stopped. Now in the face of the election of Mr. Robinson the question again arises. Every one agreed that the custom of conferring the degree was a bad one and every one was glad to see it broken...