Word: know
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...know, second place this year might be enough to erase the memory of that junior high scam...
Such a man is Dr. Eliot. Those who know him best are not surprised that today, at eighty-six, he is as actively interested in affairs of the day, as he was when, fifty-five years ago, he first became President of the University. For he has once again demonstrated the truth of the old platitude that a man is only as old as he feels. Judged by this standard, President Eliot is still a very young man, indeed...
...carried on now, however, a great part of this aim is lost. Merely the marks received in an examination are announced with no comment on the individual's work; his errors are not pointed out; and the reasons for the mark, which every man has a right to know on his own paper, remain unknown...
...clear what the paramount problems of the next four years will be. The major political parties are slow to join issue on any of those which seem likely to be highly controversial. All candidates alike profess to stand for peace, retrenchment, and reform. We know that Mr. Hoover is a fair-minded and a progressive minded man. We belive that the problems of the future are most likely to be solved with success by the man who has successfully solved those of the past. I hope that the efforts of the Hoover League of Harvard will help to bring about...
...Radical as against his conservative colleague in the matter of reading, the former usually displays an intellectual aggressiveness which is generally lacking in the case of his conservative critic. And it can harm no college man to read "The Liberator" or even "Soviet Russia," so that he may actually know what the present pro--and anti--Radical agitation is all about. We might then have fewer of those weird statements so popular in these days...