Word: certaines
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...mere consistency is a desideratum, the chief virtue of the present number of the "Advocate" is that it maintains a certain harmony of inferiority. Much of the writing is mediocre or positively bad. To the latter class belongs the prosesketch, "A Nightmare Whisper of the War." The author has contracted from Stevenson an aggravated form of the adjectival disease, and the ineffective anti-climax with which the piece concludes does not compensate the reader for the pathological exhibition to which he has been subjected in the foregoing tedious paragraphs. Though free from this contagion, the "storiette" called "A Gamble...
...Student Council has taken definite action in the question of alcohol at class functions. It has put the matter up to the classes. The wisdom of this action is obvious for an arbitrary decision--one way or the other--by the Council would meet with certain opposition...
...larger share of the task of changing existing conditions falls upon the Freshman and Sophomore classes. Men can be developed, but the process takes time. In no other field is there so much assurance of return for time expended Results are certain, but patience and diligence are necessary to obtain them...
...into the country. In Europe the immediate effect of the confusion incident to war has been an enormous increase of disease, including typhoid fever. Preventive inoculations have done much to control typhoid, but it may well be that after the war we may expect the introduction here of a certain amount of typhoid fever with other diseases...
...vital significance of Christianity for colleges. The practical side of religious matters, both with relation to men of the colleges of the United States and foreign countries, is presented. Dr. John R. Mott, president of the World's Student Volunteer Movement, and leader of the conference, will address certain of the meetings, and the list of other prominent men will include Raymond Robbins, H. E. Fosdick, Sherwood Eddy, W. D. MacKenzie...