Word: certain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SOME four months ago, when it became certain that the crew which had so nobly acquitted itself in '77 and '78 had disbanded, Harvard and Harvard's friends were bitterly disappointed. An intercollegiate contest can excite but small interest unless each college is represented by its best men. However, we were not in a position to grumble. To find fault with men to whom we were under so many obligations would have been worse than ingratitude. We could only hope that some new and unexpected material would show itself, or still better, that the old crew might relent. New material...
...This only makes the matter worse, however; for, as Mr. Higginson well says, there are very few undergraduates "so obtuse as not to see the difference between an honor which is simply and unequivocally an honor, and a so-called honor which is simply a certificate that among a certain number of poor young men a certain applicant is on the whole the most deserving...
...sufficiently patient, even during the Mid-Years, to put up with the noisy rounds of Graeco-Roman practised overhead, and can endure with philosophic calmness Smith's hilarious "Jubilate to the 'unconscious moon.' " But, unfortunately, our patience is not infinite; and we must protest against the habit of certain occupants of the upper rooms in the south entry of Matthews, of throwing bottles down through the staircase shaft. Thus the necessary and much-frequented passage-way to the basement is made very disagreeable, if not positively dangerous. We are convinced that the gentlemen can find, with very little inconvenience, some...
...place are scanty. Devotion to study seems to have injured his health, for the college book sets him down as "greaviuslie trubbled by ye cattarrhhe in ye Wintrie Wether." We find, also, that he was on terms of intimacy with the leading men of the college, especially with a certain Decanus, - a man whom history passes over in silence, but who apparently was an instructor in ethics. This worthy man often invited young Philip to spend the afternoon with him, and doubtless derived much pleasure from the conversation of the ingenuous youth...
...against Cornell and Columbia, and bear off the laurels of the much-talked-about "championship." If it were also announced that half of the same Harvard eight would subsequently compete for the four-oared cup, the number of entries therefor would be increased. Princeton, for instance, would be almost certain to train a four, if assured that the same would have a chance of trying conclusions with Harvard...