Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...have had some doubt as to the College authorities' active efforts towards the establishing of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps units at Harvard cannot fail to be reassured after reading President Lowell's communication in today's issue. The entire question is a delicate one to solve, for the War Department in the past has only directed military training in Land Grant Colleges and the system of the new training units is the first attempt to standardize the instruction in independent institutions...
...Regiment Band has done a great deal for Harvard University both last year in the Regiment and this fall at the football games. Without doubt the presence of the band at the Yale Bowl will be an enormous asset and men should think of this now instead of when it is too late. It will cost about five hundred dollars to pay the entire expenses of taking the fifty musicians down to New Haven, Buy a red handkerchief, drop a quarter in a collection box, or contribute at the mass meeting; only remember the Band...
...Christians believe his work worse that useless. A great many atheists and kindred folk who normally look upon all religious impulse as folly, consider Mr. Sunday's work constructive because it awakens a dormant moral sense in thousands. Amid such diverse views we cannot dogmatically define the man. No doubt the wisest opinion would be that the proper adjective to describe him is "indeterminable"--whatever that...
...university has the slightest doubt about the ability of the football team; the feeling is campus-wide that the men composing the eleven can compete successfully with either Harvard or Yale. It is not solely because it is a Princeton team that members of this university have confidence in it; it is largely by reason of the absolute conviction that the team this year is decidedly above the average in ability and that it can use its strength and show to the football world that it deserves to receive first honors this season...
...spirit and attitude of the student body. Indifferent, half-hearted supporters mean an indifferent, lifeless team. On the other hand the enthusiastic whole-souled support of the College inspires in the team an unshakable confidence and a determination which spells victory. The result Saturday will never be in doubt if the undergraduates do their share of the work this afternoon...