Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...skeleton stolen by certain students from the Natural History Room has not been returned...
...term "liberal advantages" has among most of our students a meaning quite foreign to that prevalent in the outer world. To us it implies not only favorable opportunities for developing our mental qualities, but also a certain liberality in choosing to take advantage of such opportunities. To be careless about our studies, to look down upon any show of energy and capacity for work, is "liberal." To make study the business of our college lives, and to believe that industry is an admirable quality, is at once to degrade ourselves to the level of students at the smaller colleges...
...conceal with a heavy cloth, there is nothing in it that does not please the eye. So far I have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures. You will of course need to buy a certain number of text-books, and if you take my advice, you will also pick up from time to time any outside books that may suit your fancy. You can't have too large a library, and nothing furnishes a room so well. For my own part, the fellow who lined...
FROM time to time certain disturbances take place in Cambridge, of which the authors are probably students; and last week an unusual violation of private property occurred in the abstraction of a skeleton from the Natural History Museum. Whether the Faculty have taken any steps to discover the guilty parties is not known, but one thing is sure. Whatever steps the governing body might take against the thoughtless perpetrators of this boyish mischief would be sure to be unpopular among the great body of the students. Harsh measures, as has been well shown on various occasions, only stir...
...writes about us to the University Press as follows: "I was struck, as every visitor must be, with the solid intellectual calibre of the professors, but I suppose the summer sunshine and the approaching close of the year's work was having its inevitable effect on the students; certain it is, the recitations were nothing to boast of, and were, in my opinion, much below the average recitations of the Wisconsin University." He proceeds to take the readers of the Press and introduce them, "in imagination," to the "Emerronian face" of Dr. Peabody, - whatever that may be. Then he ventures...