Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seems, then, to be generally allowed that an agreement upon certain nominations is absolutely necessary to a satisfactory election, and the only dispute is in regard to the manner in which these nominations are to be made, - whether by regularly organized bodies, or by knots of individuals hastily gathered together for the purpose...
...college societies are limited in numbers, and their constitutions are such that an election to any one of them is a decided honor, - is a certificate of the possession of certain qualities which tend to fit a man for a prominent position. The members of these societies are elected with great care, and usually with great deliberation. Each class admits from the class which follows a few men, chosen with care from among the entire body of their classmates. These few men meet together from time to time, and elect others from their own class to join them, forming...
...said that when they formed and supported crews they managed the boating affairs of the College, while at present we who are now undergraduates send crews and support them; and it is therefore claimed that the management of the boating interests should be intrusted solely to us. There is certainly some force in these arguments, but it is in the power of the graduates to deprive them of their force. The support of the crew is a burden which the undergraduates are very ready to share with the graduates, and the experience of those who have been here before...
...CERTAIN Professor Rose, who appears to have managed the Laboratory of the University of Michigan for a good many years, turns out to be a defaulter. The Chronicle tells us that he has embezzled the funds of the Laboratory to a very considerable amount, and the Regents of the University have in consequence" suspended...
...that altogether there is nothing in the land to compare with her. Such remarks attracted my attention particularly, for the reason that I had never myself noticed this little peculiarity of our papers. I have watched them both of late, and I think now that there is a certain amount of truth in the remarks referred to; but I have failed to see why the peculiarity should be seriously objected to. It is undoubtedly bad taste to call attention in a marked and disagreeable way to the little failings of others and one's own superiority; but this, I think...