Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...comfortable window-seats and the pervading venerable aspect of the apartment made up, we thought, for all its deficiencies. And then, after a time, the room became so filled with curious old furniture, and pictures, and signs, and photographs, and what not, that it came to possess a certain cosey and comfortable air that I have perceived in few rooms here. I cannot say that No. 43 had to any great extent the appearance of a study during our Freshman year. How could it look like a cloister when its occupants were students in naught but name? And then...
...former trains the intellectual faculties, the imagination, the memory, the judgment; the latter, the moral faculties, the character, the will. Science is the fruit of instruction; virtue should be the result of a good education. Now, even admitting that instruction in the lyceums is of a superior character, - notwithstanding certain fundamental faults which I may speak of hereafter, - it can be stated without fear of contradiction that education in these institutions is deplorable and pernicious...
Every Freshman class is expected to develop sooner or later a certain amount of material for the University crew, and every opportunity for training and experience should be improved by the available...
...Saturday Review, of April 4, has an article on the Cambridge and Oxford race, which is very interesting, especially so on account of certain criticisms on boating in general and on the system of study in vogue at Cambridge...
...Faculty, that honorable body would have little peace, yet I think any one who is unprejudiced will acknowledge that the present method of assignment fails in the first object of all these systems, namely, to secure perfect justice to all. The injustice lies in this: A man who wants certain rooms, and who is blessed with a great many acquaintances not living in the college buildings, gets all of these men to make application for the rooms he wishes to have; and, in case one of his friends is fortunate enough to get them, he, of course, has them immediately...