Word: certain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reading over with care our college papers we find, as a general rule, that the various themes which meet our eyes apply directly or indirectly to college rules, college customs. This certainly ought to be expected, from the nature of these papers. I do not wish even to argue that this is not perfectly right; but I should like to call attention to the fact that a certain class of articles are not as a general rule popular, although their character might at first lead one to expect otherwise. I refer to humorous productions...
...CERTAIN we are, that in the person of Dr. Eliot, its President, Harvard has a living illustration of the beauty and power of a fine, neat, simple eloquence, which only need be adapted to each scholar's and each gentleman's native turn of feeling and thought, or his acquisitions, to realize our view of what is to be desired. - College Herald...
...year or two ago it occurred to the fertile mind of some student that an honest penny, not to say several honest dollars, might be turned by inducing the shopkeepers of Boston and Cambridge to pay a certain sum to him to print on a sheet of pasteboard their advertisements with the tabular view of the College exercises. These sheets should be distributed to the men in the several dormitories, and thus many an unsuspecting youth would be inveigled into buying the wares of the merchants. The plan was no sooner formed than executed; the students were not entrapped...
...speedy assistance. Athens and Rome neglected the examples and memory of their ancestors, and fell. Let us hope that the American republic, upon which so much depends, and to which so many look with anxious hope, will not follow in their footsteps; for, if she does, the result is certain...
Several men having spoken in favor of paying the debt by making an assessment of a certain sum on each man in the class, and as this method seemed preferable to the usual one of trusting to the liberality of a small number, it was voted that each man should be asked to pay two dollars, this amount being considered sufficient to meet the indebtedness...