Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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HARVARD vs. PRINCETON. (Second Game.)ON Saturday morning the Senior class had a gymnastic contest in their fine gymnasium; many ladies were present, who evinced a great interest in the various exercises. The exhibition was remarkably fine, and there can be no doubt but that Princeton carries off the palm from other American colleges in gymnastic feats. Game was called at 2 P. M. with Princeton at the bat; the same high wind prevailed as the day before, and greatly affected the batting. Both sides drew blanks for two innings although Wright made a three-base hit over left field...
...object of these words is not to find fault with the work of this year, but to show what another year may be made to bring forth. Mr. Child is beyond doubt in the right about the elocution question; but if he would make it clearly understood that good reading is a desideratum in his classes, and if the students would endeavor simply to pay attention and to be interested (if they did this they would be obliged to read well), then both the advantage and the enjoyment of the course would be doubled. It is somnambulistic and apathetic reading...
...dancing in Memorial Hall was a success, though we doubt whether the couple whose conversation we overheard as they entered the hall received as much pleasure from their waltz as they did from the music of the Harvard Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality...
...Professor Adams's return may prove to be true. The electives in Oral Discussion and Modern German Literature have already been announced with more or less comment in the College papers. Some disappointment is felt because the former elective is open to Seniors only, and, in fact, we doubt if it would be overcrowded, or its usefulness lessened, if Juniors were allowed to take it, as they are allowed to take its companion course, English...
...generosity of the students, and we trust that all will love music enough, or be sufficiently public-spirited, to make the concert a pecuniary success by their patronage; that it will succeed as far as the Glee Club and the Pierian can make it, we do not doubt...