Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...authorities, may be an excellent place for learning, but morally it is held to be a sink of iniquity. At Harvard College there are to-day more than a thousand students, from all parts of America, between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five. Among these are naturally a certain number of young reprobates, who rather dislike their escapades to remain unknown. As a class, these students are rich, and may be said, I believe, to come of families not yet used enough to fortune to known quite what to do with it. Generally they are good company, and they...
...which would be absurd if it were not so frequent, that money is a recognized standard of social position at Harvard, that men of limited means are deliberately excluded from any college society, or that a man is ever elected to one simply because he is rich, much as certain public men are elected to the Senate. A man who has nothing but money to recommend him is much more surely put in unenviably conspicuous solitude at Harvard than in most parts of the world...
...Christmas, who in the midst of their pleasure disvover the usual poor family in suffering, and finally bring the needed dinner to the poor widow, send off the rent collector, Mr. Pennygrip, and then of course enjoy their holiday far more than they would have otherwise. There is a certain want of freshness in the piece, which is its most striking feature, and so much moral that little benefit can come from...
...rocket cheer" of Princeton, 'Rah! 'Rah! Rah! S-s-t-boom - ah! probably ranks next in point of interest. It also sprang up as the result of athletic enthusiasm, first venting itself over some triumph. It certainly is very original and striking. The cry of Cornell is doubtless noisiest and most irreverent of college cheers, still it has a certain vigor about it that is attractive. The original form was Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell! Cornell! but to this an addition is very frequently made to cause it to run Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell - like...
...Problem" being solved he closes with the defiant remark that "if this be socialism, I am a socialist. . . ." Such books seldom do good, yet they often have their use. Let us hope this one may affect any mind that takes it up for good. But there is always a certain feeling of disapprobation accompanying anything of this sort when at the close one finds that the author does not wish to connect his name with...