Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Chances of success for the Sophomores are very favorable, for, although the men broke training for four days after the class races, the work has been steady ever since, and their strong showing in the Beacon Cup Regatta leaves but little doubt of their ability. The crew, however, has not been trained for so short, a distance and an interesting race is expected...
...acknowledge that, in the past; courses in Greek and in Roman literature have been sacrificed to men who intended to teach. Interest has been centred not on thought or method of expression, but on classification of verb forms or irregularities of syntax. A knowledge of the latter is no doubt necessary for appreciation: we must note the peculiar subjunctive or optative to get the peculiar shade of meaning; but we do not gain anything by regarding the peculiar form as a curiosity to be catalogued, as the entomologist catalogues a rare insect. Greek and Latin are not word-puzzles...
...brief, our rowing system is one to be proud of. We doubt whether any other American college can boast of an interest in the sport even proportionately as large. With the completion of the new Weld boathouse our material equipment will be enlarged and although commodious and faultless apparatus alone will not make Harvard the leader in college rowing, the enthusiasm for the sport is too apparent to mean anything but eventual success and leadership...
...half-mile will be a close race between M. B. Van Brunt '08 and Captain Jennings of Dartmouth. With W. Minot '07 and H. F. Hadden, Jr., '09 in the mile, and M. S. Crosby '08 and H. F. Miller, Jr., '08 in the two-mile, there is little doubt that the University will win these events...
...shown by the fact that from 1890 to 1904 debts from municipal service increased 100 per cent. Since earlier municipal ownership consisted largely of water-works in which few men were employed, it is difficult to tell just how municipal ownership has affected English politics. There are, no doubt, many in this country who believe that it should have a purifying effect. It may do this in one of two ways--it may arouse a greater interest in civic life, and it may remove the temptation of public service corporations from the path of the administrators...