Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...study of the works as literature and to and estimate of the real character of the classics. Such courses would not only be valuable to the general student, but would also be useful in supplementing the training of the specialized classicist. The classical department must always offer a certain amount of philological work for those who are to become professional scholars; but there will always be a much larger number of general students whose claims are equally urgent...
...pathetic optimism against a background of a tragic past. It is the story of a Southern governor who discovers that his grandmother was a negress, through the unsolicited investigation of the anti-prohibition interests. Mr. Sheldon has staged the consequences of that discovery with a skiff that is certain, and big with the sense of the blind inevitability of the facts...
...afterward in a position to attend games in this part of the country. While they are in College they should have first consideration in the allotment of football seats. Moreover it is not the graduates as a whole who would benefit by such a move, but only a certain part of them resident near Cambridge...
...seem that an undergraduate who prefers to spend a year of his college course in needless study merely for the sake of "making" a certain team, or of playing an extra year on a team of which he is already a member, sets a low value on his time. It is rather an indication of the high value that is put on athletic honors-an exaggerated value, perhaps, but one that finds general acceptance...
...Glee Club in many cities in the South would do much to abolish the false impressions that have gathered strength from the inactivity of Harvard men in the South, from the lack of attention paid to the South by Cambridge organizations in tours and from the activity of certain other large institutions not far from Boston...