Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...step in the wrong direction, and is almost sure to meet with failure. Harvard has adopted an extensive elective system and its success is already assured. The men who graduate under it are fully equal to those who were obliged to follow only prescribed courses. I am not as certain as is one of the speakers that Yale exerts a greater influence upon the thought and culture of the times, but this question I will leave Harvard men decide for themselves. Harvard can justly call itself a University: when Yale adopts the elective system, and pursues on the whole...
...legislature have been the factors in lightening the load of evils with which the workingman is overburdened. The spirit of the "laisser faire" economist is that it is useless to work for a better condition, as the present is the "natural order of things." After science has pointed out certain results, sympathy comes in and teaches how to use these results. The sphere of sympathy is as wide as humanity. The new political economy shows that no ideal standard of man need be omitted. Years pass before the beautiful adjustments between capital and labor, on which the optimists dwell, come...
...members of a certain course in our English department have just had their attention called, in a most striking manner, to one custom in college life which has become so common where it is not regarded as a perfectly legitimate practice, as to be looked upon as a very light offence. We refer to the habit of "cribbing." That a man should have so little sense of honor as to deliberately copy sentence after sentence from a book, or degrade another man by hiring him to write his theme, indicates a code of morals which is difficult to understand...
...about a round dozen of these Nations, taking their names from the provinces or cities which they represent; the Gota Nation, from Gothenburg; Upland's Nation, Nerike's and Gefle, from provinces of the same names, and so on. The mere fact of a student belonging to a certain city or province entitles him, upon presenting credentials, to an "enlistment" into one of these Nations...
...equanimity is disturbed by constantly repeated complaints of petty stealing, - first in this department and then in that. Within the last fortnight, certain students, as it appears, have visited the trophy room in the gymnasium and have despoiled the pictures of the various crews and teams of the figures that designated the different years. Those who are guilty of this act of vandalism may excuse themselves on the plea that the articles taken are comparatively valueless and will serve the purpose of ornaments in students rooms, more perfectly than in the gymnasium. In plain Anglo Saxon, however, a student...