Word: knowe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...well known fact that if a person wishes to know anything about Yale's athletics, the Yale papers are the last place to go to for reliable information. If Yale has a good crew her papers take particular pains to make us believe that it is a very poor one. In fact, they are willing to do almost anything to put Harvard off her guard, and to inspire her with an overconfidence. Yale correspondents of the public press, however, usually express the true opinion of the students in regard to their athletic prospects with a great deal of accuracy. From...
First fresh: "Are you going to "Hazel Kirke." Second fresh: "I don't know, is there to be a matinee this evening?" (Fact). - [Yale...
...Wilde is not entirely without humor, as his Boston Music Hall audience knows; and therefore it may not be altogether hoping a hopeless hope to hope that, if he really is in earnest and is serious in his "movement," he may in time be brought to see the absurdity of his position in this country, and to appreciate the fact that he is really doing more harm than good to the cause he professes to have at heart. Our hopes in this way are brightened by some recent utterances of his given in the course of a newspaper interview, wherein...
...called here his work was earnest and faithful. The death of Prof. Ko seems, to our mortal reason, untimely. He had acquired some knowledge of our language and civilization. He longed that Chinese children should understand the English language. He was a teacher to all who came to know and esteem him. He taught us that the gentleman and scholar, the earnest and true man, is always the same. After the address, Prof. Everett offered prayer, and the choir sang a hymn from the chapel collection by Whittier. After the singing of the hymn the remains were taken back...
...funeral services over one of our instructors were held in the chapel yesterday noon. During the hours that these last rites were being held over a professor who ought to be respected by all, the college recitations and lectures went on as merrily as usual, and no one would know, from appearances, that such a sad event was taking place. We cannot conceive how the faculty could allow this to be so. Common decency demanded that college exercises should be suspended, at least while the funeral services were being held, if not during the whole...