Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last evening a spiritualistic seance was held in Lyceum Hall, which was highly successful except that the pastor of a certain Cambridge parish shrewdly guessed the way the feats were performed and gave the whole thing away in a manner exceedingly painful for the somewhat corpulent medium...
ARTICLE VI. - Section 1. Any club having agreed to play a championship game with another club on a certain day, and refusing or failing to meet its engagement, shall, unless the failure be caused by an unavoidable accident, in travelling, or the game prevented by rain, or postponed with the consent in writing of the other club, forfeit its membership in the League. A certificate signed by at least three members of the faculty shall be considered a sufficient excuse for failure to play a scheduled game...
...Certain English Authors Considered as Masters of Style (Course for Freshmen). Pope (continued). Professor A. S. Hill. Sever...
...interesting article on Harvard men in journalism, published in the Boston Post of Wednesday last - from which we reprint certain passages today - is strikingly true in many respects. No one disputes the fact that, while Harvard offers no courses in the study of journalism itself, yet there are many courses given here which are very necessary to him who intends to devote his attention to newspaper work, and which in themselves give a better journalistic education than even special courses in journalism would do. Moreover, of equal value with the ably-conducted courses in political science, philosophy and the like...
...curious thing that proud as is our boast of the advance of America beyond the old world in the solution of the public questions of the times and in practical affairs, we yet feel little humiliation that in the artistic and, to a certain extent, in the scholarly world we are still far inferior to our European brothers. Every day we watch with complacency the departure of friends "to study abroad." With unconcern we see the annual exodus of a quota of our graduating classes to Berlin, Paris, and other foreign centres of learning; and yet we know that this...