Word: knowing
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...reasons; either because they wish people in the vicinity to think that they are devil-may-care, hard-drinking fellows, or they are men who really have been indulging beyond the point of sobriety. If they are not Freshmen, in the first case, they ought to know that men do not win instant and lasting popularity or admiration from other men by being such rakish chaps, and in the second, they should have learned to behave in a respectable way despite the circumstances. What a surprise it would be if these roving bands, without being urged, should hereafter when excess...
...book was begun by a self-appointed committee, without the knowledge or consent of the Freshman class. It is an innovation; and an innovation should always be carefully considered before it becomes a fact. Very likely, the Freshman class, if consulted, would approve the Red Book, but as they know nothing about it, it is now greatly criticised. Perhaps it would be a help for all parties, if more was known about it, what its financial basis will be, and its chances for success...
...know of nothing so interesting as meeting the mind fresh as it comes into the College, and trying to impress it as well as you can with the habit of thought, trying to stimulate its imagination, trying to get it into the university way. And it is also illuminating, it shows you a good many things. One of the things that it has shown me is that few of the boys who come to us from schools can read books; they can read the printed page, of course, a sentence or a paragraph, but they cannot read a book...
...courteous treatment were we on the side of the visiting team, and then we should accord such treatment to our guests. "Rattling" a visiting team is unsportsmanlike, for it is clearly taking an unfair advantage. This usually takes the form of organized cheering at times which the cheer leaders know are inopportune for our opponents, and is really more unfair than such recognized foul play as tripping a base-runner, for it is taking advantage of a circumstance over which the visiting team has no control: namely, that it is on our grounds. As we rather pride ourselves...
...College year of 1908-09 has just been completed. The most important article of the report is that devoted to the choice of electives. The purpose of the modifications of the elective system are, as stated by President Lowell in the report, to require every student to know a little of everything and something well, and to plan his whole College curriculum seriously...