Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been out twice a day, and on one or two days tried the shell. We are pleased to see the spirit that keeps them so faithfully to their practice, for if we win the next race with Yale it must be done by hard work, for there is no doubt that Yale's defeat of last year will only make them the more earnest and the more eager to do well. The material in our boat is so good we wish to see them do themselves justice, and we have no doubt they will...
...were daily rejoiced by the spectacle of a faded young gentleman whose striking feature was a very long pair of lilac legs, and who balanced himself on the edge of (apparently) a dining-room table, as if he had suddenly felt faint and needed support. There was always a doubt in my mind whether he was Sir Philip Sidney or the Chevalier Bayard. I always supposed him to be the former of those gentlemen, on the historical occasion when he needed a glass of water to "brace him up"; but whoever he was, he tarried with us but a little...
...would be no fitness in their giving their attention to music that needs neither of these qualifications for its entirely successful performance. As to whether the outside world craves for "real college songs" when it comes to a Glee Club concert, we think this a matter open to serious doubt. Of course there are always a few people of depraved tastes in any assembly whatever, but of these we need take no account, especially in such an audience as a concert of the Glee Club would be sure to draw to Sanders Theatre...
HERE are the titles of some recent articles in our exchanges: "The Cynicism of Culture," "The Influence of Doubt," "Tennyson's In Memoriam, "Tennyson's Sorrow," The Superstition of Composition," "Music among the Greeks," "Jeremy Taylor," "The Character of Banquo," and "Carlyle's Sartor Resartus." Our readers may form their judgment by these: "ex pede Herculem...
...final tug of war between '79 and '81 will be contested to-morrow. This sport is already exceedingly popular, perhaps owing to its novelty, but there can be no doubt that where the classes are so directly opposed to each other, the emulation is far greater than under other conditions...