Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year. On the weeks when there is no lecture given the club is to meet at the rooms of the different members. At these meetings none but members will be present and it is expected that the men will give short informal talks on their own original work and certain ones will be appointed to tell what is going on of interest in the chemical world and in the papers. These meetings will be largely social and it is hoped they will keep up an active interest in the work of the club...
...people. Goldwin Smith in North Am. Rev. vol. 155, p. 582. Hence (1) Rotation in office; (2) Geographical appointments; (3) Unfit or corrupt officials. Roosefelt: Practical Politics, pp. 11-41. (b) It results in responsibility to the party, not to the people. (c) It gives undue influence to certain sections; Chinese and Silver questions. (d) Strict party government results in a rule by but little over one-quarter of the voters...
...because of its foundation in the Latin. It had an easy flow of eloquent words, but was absolutely lacking in conciseness and brevity. This style was the personification of that inflated diction which required translation by inverse ratio and which Dr. Johnson, Rufus Choate, and Carlyle to a certain extent affected. This style has now completely passed away and it is as the agent of the change which overthrew it that Wendell Phillips appears. It was probably the anti-slavery movement itself, with its feelings and sympathies calling for a poignant type of eloquence, which produced the change...
...championship games, only Waters and Gray will not be back. There are several good tackles, Connor, Gould and Beal. None of the candidates for the centre positions have yet shown anything like 'varsity form. Winslow plays well at centre but is rather light. It is not certain, either, that he will play next year...
...must have felt that the cheering was about as poor as it could possibly have been. There was little unity about it and almost no enthusiasm. In fact we have never known a game in which Harvard supporters have made so little demonstration of their feeling. There was a certain amount of excuse for this in the fact that not enough men were appointed to lead the cheering and again in the fact that the sections were so large that the leaders could not make themselves heard. But even admitting this the men who could hear the leaders...