Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...good deal of influence has of late been brought to bear by certain New England schoolmasters upon the committee on English composition of the Board of Overseers to lower the entrance requirements in English. Such a step would be retrogressive. Under the present conditions the quality of the English used in examination papers is appallingly bad. To lower the entrance requirements in English would in no way remedy this evil. Harvard College is certainly not the place to teach men to spell properly and to write good grammar. That at least should be done by the preparatory schools. The committee...
...heppen to have copies of Meissner's "Pictures of German Life," will do certain students in German A a favor by leaving them at the Co-operative Store for sale...
Seminary of Classical Philology. Open Meeting (postponed from March 10). On Certain Forms of the Conditional Sentence in Plautus. Mr. B. O. Foster. Sever...
...Tuesday.Seminary of Classical Philology. Open Meeting (postponed from March 10). On Certain Forms of the Conditional Sentence in Plautus. Mr. B. O. Foster. Sever...
...greater question of religious belief. The very essence of religion is to propose to us, first, that the best things are the more eternal; second, that we are better off by believing this truth. In case both branches of this hypotheses are true, we are supposed to gain a certain good by belief. If we avoid the issue, we lose the good. The sceptic says, "Better risk loss of truth than chance of error." But we have no evidence that dupery through hope is worse than dupery through error. A sceptic, by requiring absolute proof before he believes...