Word: certain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...make the day as successful as possible, no visitor must be allowed to experience the slightest inconvenience, disappointment, or embarrassment. Although certain general arrangements can be made to lighten individual responsibility, the success of the day must largely depend on the tact and forethought of each student...
...building is now finished, many of the books have been moved to the new part, and already the Librarian is considering certain plans for the comfort and profit of students using the Library. It is proposed to enlarge the reading-room, to give students free access to more books, and to open the Library in the evening. Though these changes are at present only contemplated, they are of such obvious advantage that they doubtless will be carried out as soon as circumstances will allow...
...what keeps toadyism alive, the obvious answer is the desire to be popular. Frankness of expression is not compatible with a certain popularity. Nay, more, if you would be popular, you must not by your silence let it be suspected that you inwardly frown on most or much or even some of your neighbors' modes of thought and action. Silence, because men do not know how much you disapprove, is more feared than open censure, and in the uncertainty your disapproval is overestimated, and in proportion feared...
...spite of difficulties, he should keep on. In many cases it is possible to get another man for the place, and the harm done is not so great; sometimes, however, it happens in college that, by reason of his peculiar fitness, a man is selected to take a certain office; if such a one resigns because the society is in a weak condition, he should remember that his resignation cannot fail to make that society weaker still...
...HAVE often gone to the Library to get certain books that are put aside for reference; but somehow or other these books are never to be found. I thought it strange that no matter at what hour of the day I might come, some studious individual had the start...