Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...almost any work which treats of the art of disciplining the memory, it will be found that whatever method succeeds in presenting before the mind the desired fact in an interesting, lively manner is, on the whole, the most certain of successful operation. And so in history it is generally acknowledged that, after fixing firmly in the mind the main facts to be remembered, whatever serves to engage the attention or provoke the imagination changes what otherwise might be a dull chronicle, burdensome to the memory, into a pleasant reminiscence, almost personal in its character, which will never be forgotten...
...proctors in Matthews are either regularly absent or culpably deaf. The result is, that certain Freshmen and other students in that building nightly signalize their escape from necessary restraint by childish racket and disturbance of all kinds...
AMONG the advantages which universities have is the one which comes from the fact that a large number of men are gathered together with interests more or less in common. Numbers always give a certain amount of influence, and I, for one, do not see why we should not use this as much as possible for our own good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead...
...namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they are a hardier race and live in a better climate." This reply is true to a certain extent; they are a hardier race beyond a doubt; but, on the other hand, no Englishman would think of sitting down in a room full of smoke and lounging away the whole afternoon, simply because a little drizzling rain happens to be falling. Their climate is not subject to extremes...
OWING to the large size of the classes in college, and the extreme narrowness of the means of ingress, a rush takes place every morning at the Chapel door. Now a rush is certain to please most of the members of the youngest class, and many of the members of the class next in point of age; but a rush is distasteful to the majority of the students, and is especially so if it involves a possibility of not getting into one's seat in time. The remedy is very simple, and, consisting as it does in merely unlocking...