Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...either ironic or foolish in the extreme to predict the ultimate eclipse of Nominee Smith by the man who is still trying, perhaps harder than any one else, to make him a lasting national figure. The Roosevelt nomination did, however, seem almost certain to make national political history of some kind...
...Harvard, at least, the amateur spirit, in its crusading aspect, is not fiercely active. Where there is no driving force of a cause to be advanced, there must be a substitute to preserve the initiative. It may be that salaries for undergraduate executives might furnish this substitute. It is certain, at all events, that the placing of a job on a salary basis leads to a deeper sense of responsibility on the part of the incumbent...
...blame in what is clearly a case of divided inadvertencies has little point, particularly in this admittedly extraordinary instance. Undergraduates find little fault with the conduct of examinations at Harvard in such matters of principle as the question of the honor system. Certain of its mechanics, however, are rather less than satisfactory. There is something about the proctor who giggles over the examination paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast...
...reason for the existence of the proctorial system at Harvard may not be malapropos. In short, the success of an honor system invariably depends upon solidarity of student opinion, which in turn presupposes a unified undergraduate body. At Harvard neither exists. The experiments with honor systems at certain other large universities have often been far from successful, and have shown that all concerned are much happier with proctors in charge of examinations...
...standing British policies against the military strength of France have been abandoned. It seems then that the British government now feels secure against that strength. It would appear that the entente of Britain and France has been so increased that "in event of war" cooperation between them is practically certain. This secret agreement between the French and British governments under the pressure of public opinion is being published bit by bit, just as much information once secret is now known about the outbreak of the Great War and about treaties between belligerents. Although the United States has stoadfastly refused...