Word: doubtedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game on the 21st of November was certainly a very pleasant experience and was enjoyed by all Harvard men present. There can, however, be little doubt that the playing of the game, although it is a fine game, by a small group of men has too large a part in the college life and in the public eye. These big final games partake to a great extent of the spectacles of ancient Rome, and it is no part of the business of a college to furnish impressive and large spectacles for sport fans...
...Arbitration, though he happens to be President of the World Court. We have recently renewed numerous old arbitration treaties, agreeing that disputes will be sent to the World Court instead of the old Permanent Court of Arbitration, if the Senate consents to President Harding's proposal. I have no doubt that when the United States gives its support to the World Court, we shall make progress in arranging our system of arbitration on a much sounder and more modern basis...
From the limbo of crazy plots and hysterical melodrama, D.W. Griffith has brought "That Royle Girl" and just why he has done it is still open to doubt. Supposing that Mr. Griffith is still capable of another "Birth of a Nation," it might be well for him to hunt around for a story. As it is he has gone to work with W.C. Fields, Carol Dempster and a lot of wind machines. It may be even possible that the wind machines were borrowed from other sets, because it seems impossible that a normal supply could create such a fiendish storm...
...doubt I am adding fuel to the fire with this letter, but that is my opinion. What are you going to do about it (Ed.'s note: Why, publish it, of course.) Thomas Sawes Hlake...
...Bostonian, yet he does not betray his old place. Instead he tries to understand and to judge wisely. "Boston", he says, "is like Harvard College twenty years from now. It is living on a reputation that is gone." And though Harvard College in twenty years will without doubt be far from such decadence, the undergraduate who has studied Boston at all can catch his meaning. Boston is in a sense "put away in lavender". And it sometimes seems as though she were living on her reputation. But that reputation is something almost worth living on. Like an old figure from...