Word: doubted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There seems still to be doubt in the minds of several instructors as to the advisability of giving out the mid-year marks in their courses. We cannot see why this hesitation should exist. It is only just that men should be given a chance to know how they stand. Often a student finds it quite impossible to tell whether he is doing satisfactory work in lines of study entirely new to him. A man trying for honors, or a scholarship, also, is greatly handicapped by not knowing how an instructor regards his work. He may have failed to understand...
...accept Harvard's challenge. She would thus strengthen the tie which is binding together the athletic interests of the colleges. In case a dual league is formed-and indications point to one in the near future-all branches of athletics ought to be represented. There can be no doubt about the two colleges having annual contests in rowing, base ball, and foot ball, and but little about track athletics; shooting matches appear to have become established as annual occurrences, and an effort is now being made to arrange bicycle races. Cricket surely has as strong a claim...
...rising sun, towards which the whole oval points. Here, in the altar, the oval and the serpent, are the three symbols of Asiatic religious rites, and that these mound builders crossed the Pacific ocean from Asia is a fact that has already been proved almost beyond a doubt. The serpent's body is twelve hundred and fifty-four feet long, following all the curves, five feet high and about twenty feet broad. Near all of the larger mounds are numerous graves from which have been taken quantities of ornaments which have thrown almost as much light on the life...
Everyone knows that the club has challenged Yale to a road race, which Yale is making an effort to accept. If the New Haven men are able to get up a team, and have a race, the sport will no doubt become much more popular. Last year a race was held with the Institute of Technology which was fairly successful and did much to put our riders in condition for the Mott Haven games...
Harvard men without doubt will enter for these games and many of the Mott Haven men who will begin training next week will also practice for the events of this contest. Harvard will be especially well represented in the dashes, in most of which she will enter three or four men and sometimes more...