Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have striven sincerely for three years to graduate with a cum laude and then perchance failed on some knotty half course through a natural inability to cope with his subject. Some men's minds are so constituted that they find it all but impossible to grasp certain lines of study, and after long and laborious work at some difficult course they find a man who is their inferior in some other branch of work, far ahead of them in marks. The rule is impolitic, as it is a standing invitation to take only such courses as one feel...
Would it not be eminently fairer and wiser for the faculty to so amend the rule as to make the bestowal of a cum laude dependent upon a certain fixed proportion of A's and B's throughout a student's course and leave the question of D's entirely aside...
...class of '88, here assembled in our last business meeting, earnestly desire to record our opinion in regard to certain questions which, in our judgment, closely effect the welfare of the college, and we do, therefore, adopt the following resolutions...
...this year with new life and it is safe to predict that the scene of last year will not be repeated. The great good to be obtained from speaking at the debates cannot be over estimated. No man need hesitate from modesty of his own ability; everybody may feel certain of a cordial reception, and the faults of inexperienced speakers are gladly overlooked...
...graduates rowed and won before we were born, and would support us with the same enthusiasm as the Yale Alumni support their undergraduates. This enthusiasm of Yale graduates and the co-operatian of students and alumni at New Haven is what makes it possible for Bob Cook, Esq., and certain other gentlemen to be travelling through the West this autumn raising large sums of money to help defeat Harvard again in 1888. If rowing interests and successes were left to become the burden for one man, the 'Varsity captain, to carry, how long would this earnestness and co-operation last...