Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hitherto, at the approach of Senior class election, the political managers of the societies have arranged a caucus meeting in their respective houses, to pledge their senior members to support a certain slate. All participants in the caucus are considered in honor bound to vote for a man for that particular office for which he is slated, and for no other. This slate is generally labelled "Representative Ticket"; it does represent an immense amount of intersociety diplomacy, but at least two thirds of the class have had no voice in arranging it. The pledge supporters of the slate generally constitute...
After examining the second part of the plan, consisting of the secret ballot system of election, the committee considers this portion also to offer a desirable improvement. Certain practical difficulties have, however, suggested themselves at this point. The chief of these is, that no man who is defeated as a candidate at the top of the ticket can be nominated for a place lower down, since no man can be nominated for more than one place...
...appears in this morning's CRIMSON demands the careful attention of every Senior. The committee which has had the matter in charge has given it the most thorough consideration and is of opinion that on the whole the plan is in greater part well worth adopting. There are, however, certain practical difficulties to be overcome, and as the changes would necessitate a radical departure from long established custom and precedent, it has seemed best to place the issue before the class...
Mathematical Conference. Papers: Geometrical Properties of Certain Lines of Force. Mr. W. H. Roever.- A Few Elementary Theoremes in Tetrahedral Co-ordinates. Mr. A. V. A. B. McCauley. Sever...
...only working hypotheses to be altered by the next discovery. He had also an infinite patience with even the errors of those who wished to learn, and great acumen in discovering the exact misconception that caused the error. His style of exposition was con cise and clear, with a certain quaintness proceeding from a delicate sense of humor so subtle as hardly to be recognized except by his intimate friends. He added to these qualities a remarkable saneness of judgement. No theory, however plausible, could run away with him, and his advice, which was freely given, was marked...