Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been turned to the coming game with Yale. While much encouragement was received from the rather unexpected victory over Harvard, still there is not by any means a spirit of confidence that Yale will be defeated on Nov. 23. The small score made against Cornell was to a certain extent a surprise. But on account of the poor condition of the team as a result of the hard fought game with Harvard a week before, a very large score was not expected. Yet taking into account this fact, it seems as if a larger score might have been made...
...Christian Idealism. The church, the state, man, human relations are Christian only as they embody a sacrificial quality of life. The whole social order is measured and tested from the standpoint of sacrifice. In the application of this doctrine, Dr. Herron is logical and unflinching. His results are, in certain cases, extreme, and to some, his conclusions seem even to be unsafe. But the directness of his teaching, his earnestness, his insight and his eloquence give him a large hearing wherever he speaks. He has travelled all through the Middle States and the Pacific Slope, but this is his first...
...property, dated twenty years after the founding. They refer to "the old college," the predecessor of the present Harvard Hall, and to "Goffe's colledge," each of which was equipped with a hall and kitchen in addition to the studies and bedrooms. This he points out as showing a certain adherence to the English custom, rendered very natural from the fact that so many of the early patrons of the College were graduates of English universities...
...French are the peculiar vowels, such as u, eu and mute e, and the nasal vowels an, en, in, on and un. These difficulties are not found to so great an extent in the French of the eleventh century. The u sound did exist then and seemed to offer certain difficulties to the Englishman of the day. But the eu, as in coleur, apparently did not exist. In its place, however, are found two other sounds, one something like o, and the other a dipthongal sound not unlike the first two letters of wet. Mute edid exist, but was invariably...
There were certain peculiarities in old French that the modern tongue does not possess, which brought the language nearer the English. The sound, as in thin, is an example. When we say faith we are reproducing almost exactly the old French word...