Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubts that, let him come here and read the story of Harvard's childhood. It took two hundred years to outgrow it. It makes a curious record, this story of the Puritan popes who wanted to be president, or wanted a professorship for self or son, or wanted a certain policy pursued, a course of study introduced, or a certain theology adopted. Affairs now move with an amazing absence of friction. Personal relations are charmingly free from constraint. We can have all courses of study desired, and the thelogies are welcome...
...talk here of the conflict of religion and science. Nobody here gives the name "religion" to that dead forest of theology whose dry limbs are cracking and falling with every vigorous wind that stirs. And nobody has done more than the clergy to free old Harvard from certain false theories as to study which fettered her young feet quite as sorely as any false theology ever tied her hands...
...change in the athletic outlook we are glad to see that the graduates have also set their heads at thinking. In the next number of the Harvard Monthly, we hear that Mr. Wendell, Harvard's champion short-distance runner, has an article in which he points out very clearly certain evils that are corrupting our athletics. We are glad to read Mr. Wendell's article, not only for its merits, but because it is a step in the right direction, an approach towards the time when the graduates and undergraduates will pull together, and then there shall be no half...
...decided that the boat races are on the whole too expensive-offering no opportunity for pecuniary return from the spectators-and too exacting of the crew, by their over-long course of training, and by excluding them from the festivities and graduation events of commencement week, and too certain to be of a purely processional character, to justify their continuance. They were the pioneer contests, but the other, and, perhaps, better ones have succeeded them...
...hear nothing further in regard to the plan for an annual international boat-race, the expenses of the competing American crew to be paid by Harvard and Yale. When we proposed this plan, it was with certain misgivings that it was rather chimerical to expect a defeated Yale to help send Harvard across the Atlantic, or a defeated Harvard to pay the expenses of victorious Yale. However, we believe, and shall adhere to one belief, that such an arrangement would be by far the most praiseworthy and satisfactory if it could be put into operation...