Word: certain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...times of all. My grief became anger; my anger grew into hatred of the man who was so cruelly depriving me of an innocent pleasure. At last there came a fatal evening when there was to be a final meeting of our rulers on the question, and it seemed certain that my enemy would be successful. In anger and bitterness of spirit I walked the grass before the Hall. A fierce gale was raging, and above gigantic wind-torn clouds rushed across the sky. Suddenly, in the gloom, a shape, black as the storm, with eyes as fiery...
...water; but it really does not strike us in that light. We would warmly, if we could, advise the College to take into its own hands the care of these bath-rooms, especially since they are the only ones we have; the same man might be employed, at a certain sum, to keep the hot water running without intermission during the whole of the College year; and the money that is paid by the students for the use of the baths should go to the College. This, we think, is a better plan than to have the bath-rooms...
...study of the prescribed course for the past few years has been little more than a hasty grind for an examination, and we suppose that to be the reason which has induced the Faculty to discontinue the study. But, however hasty the reading of the text-books has been, certain fundamental truths have dawned upon minds which otherwise would have lacked their light. Little is gained from the recitations which the men have to attend if they fail to pass the original examination, while, as our contributor says, "dawdling over the book, bit by bit, for six or seven weeks...
...good that to particularize would be to criticise parts rather than personations. But the burlesquing of the ubiquitous Bill Tweed, aside from the original play, was a source of continuous laughter. Probably the finest playing and completest impersonation given during the evening was that of Mr. Burnham as Dinah; certainly he is at present without a rival in college circles in looking and acting the lady; his voice unfortunately dispels the illusion to a certain degree, though in parts that too is conformed to the character...
...little too much afraid of public opinion; in fact, in a small way, he comes pretty near "meanly worshipping a mean thing," - the best definition of a snob ever given. Now I don't want Augustus to make an intimate friend of Smudge, and I am not at all certain that Smudge would want him to either, but he can't afford to make...