Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...better together, and put up a steadier game than for some time past, while the forward line were much faster in starting. Their team-work, however, still leaves something to be desired. Claflin, Palmer, and Wendell were all tried out in the right end position, though there is little doubt but that the first named will again have the place against Princeton on Saturday...
Over $100,000 has already been subscribed by the Princeton alumni through-out the country, but it is still a matter of doubt as to what method will be adopted to collect the remainder of the necessary fund...
...infrequently, as every student of economics can testify, certain phases of an economic problem may be obscure. The student may find himself in doubt and uncertainty on some economic subject. The bi-weekly meeting of such a society as proposed would afford a valuable opportunity for the solution of the difficulty. But the society should appeal and prove of interest and help not only to one who finds a vital attraction in the study of economics, not alone to the student who is concerned merely because he is enrolled in an elementary course; but also to all interested...
...main debate of the evening, however, gathered about the question as to whether such debating as the Oxford Union fosters could not well be made the centre of the Union's activities. Some doubt was expressed on the point of the amount of interest which Harvard undergraduates could be expected to take in such subjects as are keenly debated at Oxford. The general consensus of opinion was, nevertheless, that the experiment might be tried and, if non-existent at present, the interest would grow. Other suggestions made were that such an organization should originate and be managed solely...
This would no doubt seem very strange doctrine to many prospective benefactors of Harvard College today; and it is certain that it would have seemed incredible to the early donors. To look upon a gift under any circumstances as a burden seems at first thought an anomaly. But gradually it is coming to be recognized more and more clearly that the wisest of all gifts to educational institutions are those given unrestricted and "without strings." Of course, if a man is to choose between perpetuating his name by erecting an expensive mausoleum and by founding in perpetuum a series...