Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have, I suppose, a superintendent of the yard. Why does not this college superintendent do something to remedy matters? No doubt the old excuse of "no funds" will be raised. Well, if Harvard can't afford decent sidewalks, it better shut down at once. Many other complaints are rife among the students. We want the library lighted by electricity; we want better lights and more of them in the yard, the doorways, and the entries; we want to know what the faculty are going to do about the resolutions on athletics; we want no recitations on legal holidays. This inactivity...
...Post then discusses the resolutions in detail. We commend this discussion to any who may be still in doubt as to the resolutions. It concludes: "The fourth resolution provides for a standing committee of the colleges to supervise all contests and approve of all rules and regulations. This, of course, goes vastly further than all the others put together, and if they prove impracticable, it is much more so. It involves the transfer of the whole development of sports from the students to the faculty, and this not to the faculty of one college, but of several, different in circumstances...
...Said a rich man to me not long ago, as we were passing the Club House: "I would give half of my fortune if I were eligible for admission there," but, thank God! there's one thing in New York that money can't buy. And I have no doubt that the existence of such a club has caused many successful men to regret their lack of college advantages who otherwise would not have thought of it and who will guard against a similar loss to their sons. A millionaire may speak contemptuously of "them blanked literary fellows," but when...
...increase this feeling and bind the members of a class more closely together, ought to receive a hearty support. Judging from the success which attended the '85 sophomore dinner, we feed sure that if the arrangements were placed in the hands of an energetic committee, there would be no doubt as to the success of a junior class dinner...
...this meeting, it may be of interest to note that the games will probably be held at the Polo grounds instead of the Manhattan grounds, as at first announced. We may add that at the recent convention, all the delegates reported themselves as opposed to the athletic resolutions. In doubt as to whether the matter would be brought up, however, only a few had received positive instructions to vote against the resolutions. At Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, the faculties themselves are decidedly opposed to the resolutions...