Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second place, this interpretation must have the power to impress human minds and to influence human lives. A man who through all the changes and vicissitudes of life has remained true to his religion can no longer doubt his belief...
...current number of the Advocate is in many was a worthy and even remarkable product of the undergraduate literary mind. There is throughout a note of maturity, due no doubt to the peculiar atmosphere of Harvard as contrasted with other universities. The main editorial, dealing with the American stage through the medium of a lecture by Mr. Percy MacKaye, is a thoughtful and unusually serious statement of modern dramatic effort. If somewhat idealistic in tone, we must remember that the idealism of youth becomes oftentimes the truth of age. The quotation from Arnold is significant: "Organize the theatre! The theatre...
Although inclined to doubt seriously the condition that Mr. Whitney depicts at Yale and Princeton, we can speak authoritatively only of Harvard. Certainly here the summer baseball player and semi professional is not now present. The University takes pleasure in the geauine of its team. Indeed, if the semi professional were representing Harvard, it could not be attributed to President Eliot if he did not get his descries, for he speaks through ignorance who accuses the President of any lack of courage in such matters...
...basketball team was defeated by Brown last evening in the Gymnasium by the score of 15 to 10. The game was uninteresting at first because of the listless work of both teams; but in the second half, more life was put into the play and the result was in doubt until the last minute, when Brown scored two goals from the floor in quick succession. The University team showed the effects of the game with Tufts and was not up to its standard, being especially weak in shooting and passing, while Brown displayed unexpected strength...
...laugh from natural impulse, and not from college spirit, or friendship with their editors. We wish, however, that Lampy could be persuaded to dismiss the slave and wring the Ibis's neck. It would spare us and him much in point of soliloquies about his menage, which we doubt not sounds as dull in his warn...