Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Junior Bible class will meet in Phillips Brooks House this evening as usual at 6.45 o'clock. Dr. Gifford will discuss with the class certain characteristics of the life of Christ...
...Harvard Zoological Club. "Certain Reactions of Catfish to Light," by Mr. S. F. Wright: "Inbreeding and Homosygosis," by Mr.H. D. Fish in Zoological Laboratory. Room 46. Open also to Radcliffe...
...American Literature: Currents and Whirlpools" somewhat ambitiously attempts a diagnosis of the diseases of "bad work and insignificant work" from which he believes the novel of this country to be suffering. The article contains sound distinctions and acute observations, but it is marred by some pretentiousness in tone and certain defects of style. These last are such as perennially affect the cleverer kinds of undergraduate criticism--the use of a vocabulary sometimes merely precious, sometimes employed with an imperfect sense of idiom. But such annoyances are perhaps only inevitable growing pains, and they do not cancel one's satisfaction...
...printing the editorial referred to in Mr. Grew's letter from Berlin, the CRIMSON was attempting to express the interest which certain College men had shown in regard to the Government services. If our belief that employment in them was not permanent was wrong, as it seems to have been, it was only, because that belief was prevalent...
...eliciting a few more of the promised contributions. But the quantity of unredeemed pledges, two months after all should have been paid, seem to reflect, upon the part of the mass of the undergraduates, who appear to expect to be personally dunned for payment of their pledges, a certain lack of enthusiasm in "a movement of such vital interest". The expected Freshman canvass is withheld pending the outcome of the committee's efforts to secure possession of the money already promised; for so long as the three upper classes continue to treat the matter of payment in this fashion...