Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Jerrems was found at right halfback, where he played in such fine form that he may be put down as certain to hold the place. Greenway was on hand, but did not even wear his uniform. He may go into the game with Harvard Saturday, but there is no possibility of his lasting longer than half an hour...
...something like this: Manager Moore arranged the game with the understanding that Harvard would put her strongest eleven in the field and announcements were made accordingly. Late Wednesday night a meeting of the coaches was held in which it was decided that it would be absolutely foolhardy to risk certain men of the first eleven in a hard game. An effort was made to have the game called off, but it did not succeed. Dr. Brooks stated last night that the team as it was made up was the best that Harvard could possibly afford to use; that F. Shaw...
...certain now that no member of the 'varsity squad will play with the freshmen against Yale. The team which lines up against the Yale freshmen will thus have played together all the season and should make an excellent showing...
...Roosevelt was warmly received. He said that he did not feel it necessary to try to enlist the sympathies of Harvard men in civil service reform. Every Harvard man, by instinct and training, believes in decent politics, and civil service reform is but another name for decency in a certain part of politics...
...second is the more ethical advantage of an elevation of public methods and standards. He illustrated the first advantage by reference to the postal system. When we simply wish that letters should be delivered with speed and accuracy, it is obviously absurd to insist that a man should have certain views on tariff or finance. In the second place he pointed out that the offices, given out by political leaders to their henchmen, really formed a vast corruption fund, - that the offices were given to the most prominent henchmen, while the less prominent might receive a percentage of the salary...