Word: certain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of certain good qualities in his style and his accurate portrayal of a social order, Mr. Young on the other hand can be accused of tiring the reader at many times during the book with repetition of scenes which add little to the final affect and make what should be a long short story a full sized novel. The characterization is all indirect and is best in the presentation of the Major's two maiden sisters, who command at the same time the reader's respect and his pity...
...army, which along with the modern short story discussed in the next chapter, reproduces almost exactly the essential features of the machine. Such remarkable uniformity in such widely separated fields puts an obvious strain on the most compliant credulity. No doubt such analogies are entertaining and serve to make certain vague concepts more easily memorable, but they can hardly serve as a basis for serious study...
This week-end there is occasion for those undergraduates who find themselves left in Cambridge to do a little exploring on playing fields whose informal air of good sportsmanship is certain to prove an attraction. Harvard's athletic policy has long been established on the principle of the greatest possible number of participants. The men who have discovered the benefits received in such humble places as the lacrosse field, the rifle range, and the soccer field have gone a long way towards answering the charge that Saturday football spectacles are the sine qua non of college life...
...slumber afforded by the pleasant Harvard custom of week-ending guarantee at least a nucleus of rest around which to group whatever additional moments may be snatched in the cloistered bedrooms abutting on the square. In other words the Dean's office has made no mistake in allowing a certain amount of leeway on such weekends as the coming one which include an extra holiday...
According to the statistics, 58 more students than in 1928 attempted this year's tests. On the other hand, 249 fewer took the examinations than in September 1925, during which academic year the system providing for the passing off of language requirements with the attainment of certain marks is specified courses was instituted. In that year, 1109 students took the examinations, while this fall only 920 tried the tests. The general decrease is attributed directly to the alteration in the means of receiving credit for the requirements...