Word: certain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...should be voluntary, and the member not marked on recitation; while attendance on the "B" should be compulsory, and the recitation marks averaged with the marks of the monthly examinations. Those who preferred to be marked on recitations could remain in "B" divisions. The examinations should count as a certain number of recitations, say an hour examination equal to three recitations; a two-hour examination to six, and a three-hour to nine, recitations...
...general approval, for they seemed to swing very well together. Their recover was, however, too much of that "elastic leap" which used to be so common, and which always looks so very "racy." Weld and Holyoke both had better individual polish than the Holworthy crew, but they lacked that certain and firm catch together, which is only the result of long pulls by the same crew, behind the same steady stroke...
HARVARD men are certainly as fond of social pleasures as the men of any other college; but it seems to me that this would hardly be evident to an outsider, from our ways of manifesting our tastes in this direction. We have, to be sure, a few purely social societies, others social and literary; but both, the first in particular, are limited in their scope, and of course confined to a certain number. Other means of social enjoyment in college we have not. A Harvard Union, the plan for which was ably set forth in a recent number...
...find from some of our exchanges that Harvard has become the subject of a rather warm discussion in certain college circles. What she has done, is doing, and is yet to do, - what Carlyle would denominate her "infinite conjugation of the verb To Do," - has been ruthlessly divulged. As every discussion of this kind sends up some drift-matter of questionable soundness, so we find now a couple of bits that we recognize as exceedingly familiar and as thoroughly worthless as when they first dropped into the tide of discussion that sets so regularly towards Harvard. In the first place...
APROPOS of the notions of Paradise entertained by certain theologians, the University Herald requests us to "imagine our much revered Faculty all (?) with harps in their hands, asking one another in subdued whispers for Helmholz's formula...