Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young men were in his day, when a careful reading of the leading article of the Monthly betrays a repetition of the sentiment. Dr. Everett, in English not particularly elegant, pictures student life at Harvard thirty years ago, and manages to intersperse a fair degree of contempt for certain methods which at present obtain among the students. But a class of students whose reading was Dickens, although two or more years younger than the corresponding class of to-day, were of course, "above the reproach of being magnificent animals," for those were halcyon days, when "boys began preparation for college...
...substance: I cannot too forcibly urge upon all of you who remain away from these divisions, - either from a lurking belief that you can express well what you have to say naturally, or from a distrust of the methodical means of acquiring it, - the absolute necessity of obeying certain fundamental principles which are founded on truth. You cannot rely upon the natural expression of your feelings when you come to deliver a speech or read a poem. You must know what that natural expression of your feelings is; it is not arbitrary, but, growing out of laws of nature...
Yesterday's Globe, commenting upon the Yale eleven, remarks: "It will be seen that the Yale rush line is lighter than for several years past. It is thought that the men will more than make up in strength what they lack in beef, and it is certain that their game will be a "tricky" one. They have some very neat little tricks on hand in passing and dodging with the ball...
...subject divides itself into four divisions upon which emphasis ought to be put, namely, that everyone must expect to reap what he sows, the same kind of seed and more than he sows, and finally that ignorance of the seed does not make the result any less certain...
...college dormitories, but that they want the proctors to protect from molestation the men who take rooms in those dormitories and mind their own business. Men should remember that a college room is not like an isolated house in a ten acre lot. but that there is a certain duty of self-restraint which devolves upon all who live in such close proximity to one another...