Word: know
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates know the significance of the various devices connected with caps and gowns. Although the wearing of this form of dress is supposed to be a very old tradition it was not introduced into the University until 1893 when it was adopted from the English universities. There it has been in vogue since the twelfth century...
...representative magazine is not yet; the anthology of Harvard's "best" is-still unborn, but the Advocate is awake and doing its share toward letting us know what the majority of undergraduates can and do write; and, it is to be hoped, read. Possibly the isolated genius does not flourish in these pages, and perhaps there are here no signs of that rara avis, the average student. But infallibly there is worth-while work from men blessed with ideas and ability to express them
...inestimably valuable to every country and citizen of the world. On this topic every college student should be thoroughly well-informed; to be ignorant is to shirk one's responsibility. Most of us have tried to follow the Peace Conference in the newspapers; but we really know very little beyond the fact that there is some sort of an argument about the Saar Vallely and that Italy is not satisfied. A great number of Harvard men have never read the Covenant for the League of Nations and some never will. Although an absolutely ignorant person will be able to gain...
...members of the Faculty. There are about half a dozen professors and instructors who meet students informally at definite hours in their homes, and their courses stimulate a larger number of undergraduates than do others. At present, some men go through College without talking to a single instructor and, know by sight, only those with whom they are obliged to take courses...
...fault to a large extent, but the courses and the system underlying them are also responsible. Students fail to link up their outside interests--even the intellectual ones--with their lectures. Some men have far too many activities to be able to digest them; others do not know what to do with their time. The proposed division of activities at Yale, which is outlined on another page, shows an effort to establish a balance...