Word: certain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...indifferent to the odd moment. We are blind to its possibilities careless of the opportunities it offers. We squander them in prodigal wastefulness. If we do not have an hour or more available for a certain task, we let the precious moments slip by. We postpone until a more convenient time tasks which might be started and possibly finished. We plan our lives on a slip-shod basis. And then we wonder why our college careers are barren of achievement...
...regard each other with mutual suspicion at first sight. Very few men indeed have been able to unite physical prowess and intellectual distinction, although last year's Phi Btta Kappa list contained some notable exceptions. There is no reason why every student should not follow their example to a certain degree, with the practically unlimited time at his disposal. For unless it is driven to an unhealthy extreme, neither work nor play need occupy more than half one's leisure hours. Personal negligence alone can explain such one-sidedness. Whoever recognizes his physical unfitness or his mental bankruptcy has plenty...
...University Tea will be held in the Parlor of Phillips Brooks House on Friday afternoon from 4 to 6 o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended to all students in the University to attend these weekly occasions which are held throughout January and February of the mid-year period. Certain members of the Faculty and their wives will be present at each...
Miss Lowell is always exact; her most daring images are of great clarity; and Mr. Fletcher has a certain rhythmical richness. Neither of them ignores the grammatical restrictions of our language. But these lines are an approach to the madness of Miss Gertrude Stein...
...immortal Bill Walker, both having gone onto other boards. Mr. Herbert Druce, who played the elder Undershaft, is by no means mediocre, but there is a tinge of great power in the munitions-maker which at times he missed. Mr. Lewis Edgar was a good Bill Walker. A certain nervousness and rushing, however, clouded his part in a few places...