Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...defence of its use that such a phrase is hardly slang when it "has passed as current by writers who have been set up as example of style." On the other hand, he continues: "It were to continue the discussion to an undue length to cite instances where certain words or phrases put under the ban, charged with being Americanisms, have been proved to be English, and good, old English at that. Our use of the words "guess" and "well" is one of the most familiar of these. Indeed, we must not look to London (pace Mr. Richard Grant White...
...Critic's "Forty Immortals" writes as follows to the Literary World: There are certainly some curious features about the Critic's list of forty American Immortals. One of these is the fact that its pyramid rests, unlike those of Egypt, upon the apex. Mr. Francis Parkman certainly ranks very near the head of our living authors, whatever may be his sins in the way of political pessimism, yet he stands at the very bottom of the Critic's list. It moreover appears that he would not have occupied even this humble position but for the fact that two or three...
...relics of the old system of police regulations which used to exist in all colleges and universities in olden times. These last two regulations are what we might call dead letters on the Oxford statute book; no observance is paid to them. These are good examples of a certain class of petty rules and regulations in existence, but never enforced at Oxford...
...attention has been called to certain editorials in a sheet "published by the students of Phillips Academy, Andover." The paper was not sent to us for some reason, although it is on our regular exchange list, and so we have not had an opportunity to remark upon certain statements which it contains. It is difficult to reply to conceited schoolboys smarting under the sting of a seyere defeat, and we should never think of noticing them at all, did not such an attack as has been made call for the severest censure. The Andover base-ball nine is famous...
...heartily tired of replying to the puerile attacks the Yale Courant has seen fit to make upon us in its endeavor to prove certain "facts" that we have already commented on in regard to the freshman game. If that sheet would only resume the reasonable tone it used to show occasionally some time ago, and would use a little good sense, or better, a little common fairness when dealing with Harvard, we should be most happy to refer to it. But so long as it descends to such impertinence as its past issue exhibits, its remarks can only be treated...