Word: certain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...your fellows for a while. Sooner or later you will see some man to whom the idea of wealth as mere wealth does not appeal, whom the methods of amassing that wealth do not interest, and who will not accept money if you offer it to him at a certain price...
...last word youth needs is an exhortation to be cheerful. Some of you here know, and I remember; that youth can be a season of great depression, despondencies, doubts, and waverings, the worse because they seem to be peculiar to ourselves and incommunicable to our fellows. There is a certain darkness into which the soul of the young man some time descends--a horror of desolation, abandonment, and realized worthlessness, which is one of the most real of the hells in which we are compelled to walk...
...gymnasium class is held, and in between all these exercises and prac- tices, scrub teams and individuals exercising on the floor are hampered. The lack of a tank practically cripples the swimming team which must practice out in Brookline at uncertain hours, or rely upon the caprice of certain owners for the use of dormitory tanks, and must meet teams accustomed to regular practice in well-appointed tanks, obviously at a great disadvantage. The apparatus of the Gymnasium is in general good, but in many cases antiquated, such as the rowing machines. The sanitation of the building is imperfect, danger...
...reasonable that a man who can keep off probation the year round, taking part in two sports, could as easily compete in three? Because sure as water rises to its own level man takes his normal exercise, and the gratifying result of this rule is only to divert a certain amount of this exercise into channels which in no way assist the University. It's a pity, a great pity, that so many Harvard defeats are shelved with the athletic rules of its own making. It would seem as if the powers that be didn't care...
...than. in most of the Cambridge eating places; and for that reason we expect to find the food much better. Of the quality offered we have little to complain, but it does seem that by a little judicious management the meals might be served fresher and hotter. There are certain articles of food quantities to be served when called for, as is apparently done in some cases at present...