Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lamentable state of affairs. Probably the best possible way to raise the average standard of athletics here is to give every man a chance to take part on some out-door sports. At Yale, the athletic grounds are at a considerable distance from the college, and there is no doubt, in our opinion. that some such suitable field as this could be secured within a reasonable distance from the college, which could be devoted to tennis, and to those men who are not on any of the regular teams. That such a field would fill a long-felt want there...
Macaulay won a fair share of University honors, being twice awarded the Chancellor's medal for English verse, and also obtaining the Greaves Essay prize. Without doubt, it was only by the life of easy sociability which he led, and by the active part which he took in all the affairs of the student world around him, that he was prevented from winning the highest honors. As it was, though he failed to secure a place in the Tripos of his year, he gained a Fellowship with distinction, and narrowly missed being awarded one of the three silver goblets...
...they shall so enunciate each word that the hearers may easily take them down in writing. After the reading is over the Professors shall stop for some time in the recitation rooms and if any scholar shall wish to object to anything they have read, or shall be in doubt on any point, they shall listen to him kindly, and shall explain away his doubts and difficulties...
...Rochester seniors have petitioned the faculty to be allowed to read Plato in the English, instead of in the Greek, and the petition will without doubt be granted...
...half the required number of names has been obtained, and every man who can go should hesitate no longer in putting down his name. Surely there are fifty men in the class who possess sufficient class feeling to make the question of a dinner no longer a matter of doubt...