Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bear in whatever they may do afterwards. Obviously it is only the individual athletes who can bring success to a meeting, and if every man who has any claim to proficiency at all will only take hold and do his part, the success of the meeting is assured beyond doubt. There is always a strong tendency in freshmen athletics for the men to hold back, lest they be suspected of "pushing themselves forward," and so "make themselves ridiculous," but any such feeling is based only on a false sense of modesty, for the college will welcome and will appreciate...
...decent proficiency in the game. When other freshmen classes have sent thirty men to the park from the first of the season, the class of '87 has never at one time had more than six. Six men out of 170 ! When you entered this college you no doubt felt yourself weighed down by the glory of Yale's past victories, but do not for a minute think that the college is going to keep on and do the heavy work while you look on in indolence. You must do something, and that right speedilym for the good of your college...
Under proper management such a club should effect good results, and with a membership drawn from all the branches of the university would doubt less command strong support, and the open meetings be of practical benefit...
There can now be no doubt about it. The Harvard Annex is an undoubted success. The triumphant announcement is made, as the final clinching argument, which can not be gainsaid, that three of the undergraduates are engaged to their professors. The most perverse opponent of co-education and the higher education of women can not continue incredulous after such monumental success as this has crowned the four years' effort of the Annex. If such a result had been confined to the experiment entered into with such fear and tremboing at Cambridge, it might be considered something phenomenal...
...columns, and to keep it up to the times in every particular. Of course it will be quite impossible for us to attain the standard we have set before us unless we can receive the support of the students, but that we shall obtain this support we have little doubt, provided we do our utmost to deserve...