Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There is some complaint among many men in a certain German course, because the instructor frequently detains them from 5 to 10 minutes after hours...
Yesterday morning a furious runaway horse was stopped on Harvard Street by the courage of a certain member of '86. The heart-felt thanks of the owner rewarded the brave student...
...attempting to perfect himself in the peculiar style which chance or his early education may have led him to adopt. If he gets a chance to study other themes besides his own, he gets new ideas, he sees an entirely different style which has certain charms which his own does not possess, and almost unconsciously the beauty of the ideas and of the well turned sentences will react upon him, improving his writing in the course of a year almost beyond recognition. It is true that we get something of this sort by reading the college papers, more especially...
...next. The choice was made by classes, beginning with the seniors, the man who had occupied the most undesirable room the year before being allowed to choose first, and so on; those who had particularly good rooms having usually to content themselves with a loft in Massachusetts. There were certain privileged characters who were given a choice before the rest of their class, such as the President's freshman who chose first, followed by the instructors freshmen in the order of their patron's seniority. It will be seen that by this arrangement, Holworthy was practically given...
...before a degree is obtained. At Brown, before a man loses class standing he must fail to receive fifty per cent. in three examinations at any one examination period. Such a rule permits as much undisturbed "dwelling" at Brown as is possible at Harvard. We have heard of a certain beast braying in a lion's skin, but nothing so analogous to this fable has happened lately among our colleges than this Declaration of the Brunonian. When the Harvard A. B. represents less worth than the same degree from other colleges, then the latter can find foundation for such nonsense...