Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shakespeare's contemporaries and successors in play-writing, on the development of English fiction, on English verse in its several kinds and stages, on the English essayists, and many similar subjects, would all be very useful. Or, it might possibly be better to have courses arranged to cover certain periods of time. However matters of detail may be decided, it is certain that there is room for improvement in our department of English Literature...
...sides. In early life the lungs have a rose color; but as a person grows older, a quantity of black looking matter is found scattered through them, and sometimes forming streaks in the surface. This is shown to be corbon, and has been inhaled from time to time. Inhaling certain kinds of dust will give pulmonary consumption...
There is a great tendency among the students here at Harvard, to look with a certain amount of derision and contempt upon the man who is neither going to take up one of the regular professions, nor enter business, but intends to pursue a specialty which affords absolutely no chance for material gain. The cry of "dillettanteism" immediately arises. It cannot be denied that "dillettanteism" is becoming a very popular euphemism for doing absolutely nothing in life. But it is a simple matter to point out that a man who is well up in literary work can readily bring honor...
...article on base-ball at Yale which appeared in a Boston paper recently, declared that the Yale freshmen felt tolerably "certain of defeating the Harvard freshman nine next spring...
...recitations, while only three years are necessary to complete the course, and not even all of this time need be passed in residence at the university. Their recesses are also longer, so that the three terms contain only about two hundred and twenty-seven days. Moreover, at a certain period in their course, arts students may take professional studies, and by a certain selection of subjects, may have their choice of either a degree in arts...