Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can be little doubt but that the total amount distributed to graduates of Cambridge schools in all branches of the University has in recent years been equal to the income of the Buckley fund. But in your calculations you assume six thousand dollars of this income is distributed to Freshmen, whereas the fact of the matter is that no Cambridge Freshmen have received money publicly identified with this source. They have received what have been termed Cambridge scholarships (awarded to those with honor grades) and Cambridge Aid. All but a few Cantabridgians have been under the impression (or delusion...
...Instead of answering the question directly Professor Hillyer launched into a discussion of the beauties of Mackail's translations from the Greek anthology. He was rudely awakened, he says, by an efficient voice that demanded a direct answer to what seemed to the student a momentous question. "I cannot doubt." says Professor Hillyer, "that, although my information enabled him to correct the single sentence he had in mind, his should will split its infinitives forever, and his spirit will be but a dangling participle. Certainly he will never read Mackail...
There is no real conflict between the lecture system and the tutorial system. In the Harvard plan of education each has its place. Why, then, this preference for the one over the other? No doubt many factors enter in: one of them seems to be the almost universal assumption that lecturing is more important than tutoring. Men will always strive to do the things which they think will advance their interests. As long as the false idea persists that the giving of a course may improve a man's chance of promotion, while tutoring does not, ambitious young members...
...diving the Crimson should emerge with the first two places, taken by Henry Fitts and Bernard Merriam, and of a Harvard victory in the relay there is little doubt...
Well-informed sources have expressed considerable doubt whether a final decision will be made this evening. The indications point to the formation of an Investigation Committee which will first ascertain the facts and then submit a report to the Council for its consideration...