Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...session. This institution began its career in 1880. It made quite a flourish, and soon succeeded in getting a respectable class in point of numbers; but if the facts were known its whole course would be shown to have been marked by continual discord. This feature has no doubt played a prominent part in bringing about its final collapse, which turned out of doors in the neighborhood of forty students who had paid their money for that which they will never get. This wrong has, however, been somewhat lessened by the American Veterinary College coming...
...remarkable fact that just at this time when the future destiny of inter-collegiate athletics in the larger colleges is hanging in a state of doubt, two attempts are being made among smaller colleges towards the formation of new inter-collegiate leagues. Such things as these are excellent evidence of the value of inter-collegiate associations in stimulating and prompting regular training and systematic exercises in the colleges. The impulse for such training, in any valuable form at least, for both large and small colleges, usually comes from without. Inter-collegiate rivalry is the life of any thorough system...
...There is doubt if the records made at the Union meeting can stand, as the track was not measured with sufficient care...
...there are so many courses to choose from, and so many that one wants to take. At present the only help which we get is from the elective pamphlet or by hunting up the various instructors, But such lectures, although not aiming specifically at such an end, would without doubt accomplish it incidentally; and the instructors would be enabled to do much more service to the university, both in instructing its students and widening its fame...
...Grant is best known as the author of "Little Tin Gods-on-wheels; or, Society in our Modern Athens," which first appeared in the Lampoon. This little book, which has probably been read by all Harvard men, of late years, has met with remarkable success, due no doubt very much to the illustrations by Mr. Atwood as well as to the "trilogy" itself. Almost nine thousand copies of the book have been sold and the demand still continues. It is a strange fact that the book met its largest sale in New York city, probably because...