Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...track on Holmes Field. Never before has the track been used so early in the season. In addition to the new candidates the following men of last year's team appeared: Wheelwright, Holmes, Garcelon, Merrill, Whittren, Hill, Lakin, Jameson and Chaney. Collamore was also out but it is not certain that he will be able to train...
...means certain that Waters will sit at 7, but his superior strength will doubtless prove of great benefit to the crew wherever he rows. He will not go into active training till next week...
...courses offered, except those in the Medical School, in Engineering, and the two more advanced courses in Geology, are open to women as well as to men. In addition to those above mentioned, certain lectures on methods of instruction will be given by teachers in the several departments represented by the schools. They will be open, without charge, to the persons who are enrolled as members of any of the summer schools in the University. In general, the courses offered are adapted to the needs of those who intend to be teachers in the several subjects. Several of the more...
...often tend to mislead the rising generation, who aim at the result, but do not place a just value on the means by which such a result is obtained. Daniel Webster did not become great by merely imitating some one else. He had great gifts of a certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other men does not depend on girth, or stature, or avoirdupois. Napoleon and Nelson, Garrick and Kean, were little men, yet did not their individualities find suitable means of expression, each in its proper fashion? Just so may that...
...wrought under the sun is grievous unto me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit." These two writers, he said, have views so opposed to one another that evidently one of them must have been very much in the wrong. And is it not so that viewed from certain standpoints there seems to be an element of truth in the words of the old preacher? Does it not sometimes look as if all this world was vanity and vexation of spirit? Is the reward of this world worth the price we pay for it? The old preacher had tried...