Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard has lost many of last year's prize winners in track and field athletics, every new man will be looked upon as a possible substitute, and must feel that the credit of the college depends in part upon his best efforts. While the championship is in so great doubt, there can not be too many entries even in the class games. These games will give new men a chance to see what they can do and at the same time will be a valuable preparation for the University games next week and the inter-collegiate games at New York...
...only one of the most distinguished men of our own country, but is of more than national reputation. He is a recognized authority on all questions relating to the constitution of the United States, and in his present position as chairman of the Inter-state Commerce Commision is, without doubt, doing more than any one else to establish American law in regard to railroads. He has already done much to abolish corporate abuses, and, perhaps, even more to bring about a correct understanding between the people and the corporations. It is barely possible that some of the readers...
...William Lawrence preached at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took his text from John xx. 27-29. He said that every age has its own appropriate character, but to no age since the resurrection has the character of Thomas appealed as it does to this. Thomas was a doubting character and this is a doubting age. But there is more in the character of Thomas than the incident of the text would lead us to believe, and so, too, the element of doubt is not the principle...
...report shows an opinion of higher moral tone, of greater earnestness for work, of superior advantages for this work at Harvard, than is possessed by any college or university in the country. They tell what those who have investigated the matter know to be true without the shadow of doubt, but the more we can emphaslze these facts and present Harvard in her true light, the better, and surely this report speaks with strong emphasis...
Concerning the excellence of the general spirit of work, there seems little doubt. Ninety per cent of those who write on this point vary in their expressions of opinions from "good" to "never have seen a more thoroughly earnest spirit...