Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...records have been anything but pleasant reading. This year the story of Harvard's victories is one that will serve to awaken again the enthusiasm of the upperclassman, and, it may be, will stir the blood of the incoming freshman, though in the events chronicled he had no part. Certain it is that the successes of last year will form an oft read chapter in the athletic history of Harvard, and that the names of STORROW, WINSLOW, ATKINSON, and WILLIAMS will not soon be forgotten among the undergraduates at Cambridge...
...lads to encourage them." In those primitive days the corporation treasury rolled in a maze of "pecks of wheat" and "mellow apples," paid by the people for the support of learning. Those were the halcyon days when the alma mater was herself sustained by milk from "ye udders of certain notable fat cattle...
Aside from the fact that the game of yesterday was too close to be altogether pleasant, there were certain other disagreeable features which should be noticed. First, we are sorry to be obliged to censure a Harvard player for indulging in a dispute with a player on the opposing team. This is a practice contrary to all Harvard traditions. It must not occur again. Next we feel compelled to notice the conduct of certain members of the visiting team. With utter disregard of all the rules of self-restraint which should govern a college ball player, these players badgered...
...rhetoric, philosophy, Latin, Greek and mathematics to one who had frittered away four years in studying a French drama of the eighteenth century, a little music and similar branches." Dr. Warren of the Boston University takes a hand in the dispute, siding with Dr. McCosh in favor of a certain amount of Greek and Latin as required, although Boston University cannot be said to have acquired a reptation for great strength in the Greek and Latin classics. The only way of settling a controversy like this is by actual experiment, continued long enough to show positive results. The experience...
...desirable for a university to turn out. We want men who can think for themselves; not men with an unlimited capacity of cramming down other people's statements, and producing what is called a brilliant set of answers. If a man really knows a subject, he is pretty certain to do badly when examined in it. A thorough knowledge of a subject absolutely prevents it from being compressed into the answers to a few questions. It is only the smatterer who can do this; the real student, with all the details, the arguments for and against, the side views...