Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the Thayer Club officers in consultation with President Eliot, the President informed them that if it could be made certain that three hundred men would board at the Club next year, the dining-hall in Memorial would be used. Circulars will be issued, possibly distributed next week to the undergraduates and members of the schools. If the required number is made up before the end of the year, the necessary work will be immediately commenced, and it is hoped that the hall will be ready for the club at the beginning of the next academic year...
Insurrections in college seem to be like certain childish diseases, some time or other they must come, and the name of "Rebellion," which a certain elm in the College Yard bears, reminds us of our own weakness. But this ought not to lessen the censure with which the leaders of the revolt should be visited, and we can only hope that before long the tone of our universities may be so far raised in the way of refinement and moral character that scenes like the above may no longer be recorded to our humiliation...
...series about superior instruction, and student life in Paris. We felt at first somewhat diffident about publishing serially what would be much more effective in a single article of a larger publication; but, as far as we can judge, the experiment has thus far proved satisfactory to our readers. Certain it is that those who keep their old Magentas have in the numbers of the past year a very concise and accurate account of the state of the educational interests of France...
...much for the boating interest of a class to have a second crew in good training as it is to have the first crew in condition. It inspires a certain feeling of confidence in case of accidents among the first crew, while it acts also, if it makes any pretensions at all to excellence, as an incentive to the other...
...books are preceded by prefaces never read, as animals go through certain strange movements when they first meet, as men chatter about nothing when introduced, so we propose to do, and say a few words of no importance...