Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...undergraduates are going to form in the Yard and march "up the street" to Soldiers Field. Often in big football contests, when defeat appeared certain, the scale has been turned by as enthusiastic, cheering crowd. Victory much be won this afternoon. It is the job of everyone to make it certain. Every undergraduate should stand by the team--defeat or victory...
Five defeats out of seven encounters, a certain lack of the essential drive, and a slackness among individual members in matters of team play and training is the record which the baseball squad has presented to the University during the past three weeks. It has been a number of years since Harvard has had to face such a major sport problem. We have hesitated for a long time before admitting that fact; there seems now but little doubt that it is, unfortunately, true...
...enforcement has already been tried and disapproved of by the people generally, such a repeal would create a dangerous rift in the popular respect for organic law. The Constitution of the United States, our national rock of strength, would sink in popular esteem to the comparatively fallible level of certain state constitutions and ordinary statutory laws. Besides this it would cost endless time and discussion on the part of Congress, State Legislatures, and responsible individuals, at a time when all energies should be bent toward reconstruction, and a resumption of the ways of peace...
...substance of the resolution is as follows: "In order to divide the extra-curriculum offices in the university more widely among the undergraduates, and keep certain men from taking up too much of his work, the offices have been divided into two classes, A and B, and will hereafter be subject to certain rules...
...frequent suppression of the newspapers by foreign governments was responsible for many of the disorders arising from the revolutionary movements," said Mr. Villard. "It is certainly most discouraging that the minute the revolutionists get into power they imitate the very sins of their predecessors in regard to newspapers, and on precisely the same ground: that they must see to it that the truth shall be printed. But these socialistic reformers are just as certain that this truth must be read through their colored spectacles as were the governments which have come to such an inglorious...