Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...several of his friends, appears before the august assembly of professors. After an interchange of civilities in Latin and profound reverential bows, the student is invited to read his thesis. Suddenly one of his friends will jump up and express his doubts as to the truth of a certain assertion. A dispute then ensues between the two, in which by some mysterious dispensation of Providence, the candidate always comes out ahead. To one uninitiated into the great secret, the sudden interruption is startling, but when we learn that this whole scheme was hatched at that convivial gathering of last night...
...arose and the song was given with a will. Though this formally ended the regular exercises of the evening, many lingered to exchange personal greetings and congratulations. The affair was acknowledged to have been a decided success, although the otherwise ready flow of wit and humor was, to a certain extent, held in check by the consciousness of the recent death of Mr. Cutter, the ex-secretary of the Association. This lamented occurrence led to the postponement of the dinner from Jan. 1st, and accounts for the almost total absence of undergraduates, as college opened on the second instant...
...Certain graduates, now members of the Law School, who are interested in the fate of the chapel petition, are getting up a list of names to be appended to that of the undergraduates on the original petition...
...Harvard fosters a loose morality and tends to elevate the evil above the good? It is true that our "social gatherings" are better attended than our prayer meetings, that societies offer more attractions than the chapel, that the Harvard spy-glass is not unknown in Boston theatres at certain seasons of the year, and that the writings of certain authors are a little more closely thumbed than the books of Miss Austin. But where is the harm in all this? "Boys will be boys, of course." The question then resolves itself into a question of innate morality. Are our ideas...
...these criticisms doubtless have a certain amount of justice in them, but why all this needless extravagance? The exchange editor of the college paper seems to lack good judgment, to be immoderate in all that he does, giving either elaborate praise or uncalled for censure. He should, however, remember that extravagance, whether in praise or censure, defeats its own ends. In the case of praise the lies are too evident; and in the case of censure the bitterness very naturally meets with resentment...