Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...discriminate and with the enthusiasm that Harvard does, but when charles Francis Adams, at a Harvard commencement, declared there was nothing within the bounds of ambition he might not have attained had be not been weighted down by the classics, it was enough to cause Yale men to doubt their efficiency. Consequently, the speaker thought that the time was probably not far distant when Yale would stand where Harvard does now. He alluded to the new inter-collegiate athletic rules as the outcome of a desire of the Harvard faculty to protect their students from the beatings received at foot...
...collecting such evidence as this, I think we can arrive at some idea of the attitude of graduate opinion on this subject. I have no doubt others can report conversations fully as interesting as this...
...pomp and show which might mark such an occasion in any of the effete despotisms of a foreign civilization, was yesterday heroically dispensed with at Harvard. With tense brows and studious, downcast look. professors and students could be seen pacing the gravel-strewn walks of the yard, intent no doubt in recalling the glorious deeds of the father of his country, first in peace, first in war, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. How much better is such an observance of the day than the maddening pomp and wild holiday uproar that some thoughtless ones unseemly clamor...
...athletic regulations, and as the college papers have as yet failed to present that position as I conceive it to be, I shall endeavor to express what appears to me to be the student feeling. If I am mistaken in my interpretation of that sentiment, I do not doubt that I will soon be corrected through your columns. In the first place, I should like to have it understood that we do not question the good intentions of the faculty. Every student appreciates their motives, and although the students may not agree on the action of the faculty, they certainly...
...that necessitates some regulation by a kind faculty? We have been playing a rather rougher game of football than in the past. True; but it is a well-known fact that the students as a body were opposed to the roughness of the game, and there can be no doubt that student sentiment would have stepped in to prevent the repetition of such playing in another year. But the ill-advised action of the athletic committee last fall made it a matter of honor for the students to continue the game through the season. For my part...